Blog : InTime

The New InTime Since day one, every customer has been hoping that we can magically reduce their designs’ compile times. Sadly, (and for the umpteenth time!) we can’t – that is still the domain of the FPGA tool makers.  However, what we as users can do, is learn how to quickly abandon builds with poor […]

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While LogicLock assignments enable users to constrain their Quartus designs’ placement locations as part of floor-planning, at Plunify we’ve always been thinking about intelligently doing targeted LogicLock adjustments to improve design performance. This idea has now been implemented into a new recipe in InTime 1.6.0 called Auto Placement. The new Auto Placement recipe performs automatic placement adjustments to […]

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There are prudent reasons for not using too much of the FPGA’s resources, because one almost always has to insert more logic to fix a failing timing path or a functionality bug. Even back in college, the digital systems professor made it a rule that we could only use up to 70% of the logic resources for our senior […]

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It is common knowledge that Vivado uses an analytical place and route engine for better and more predictable design closure. As a result, Vivado got rid of the “cost table” (also commonly known as random seeds) user options. What may be less well-known is that designers still have ways to introduce randomness into Vivado placement. Like […]

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