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 […]
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 […]
It is common knowledge that Vivado uses an analytical place and route engine for better and more predictable design closure, and in the process, 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, and […]