Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Design Compilation

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Date 10/22/2021
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3.4.4. Enabling Timing-Driven Synthesis

Timing-driven synthesis directs the Compiler to account for your timing constraints during synthesis. Timing-driven synthesis runs initial timing analysis to obtain netlist timing information. Synthesis then focuses performance efforts on timing-critical design elements, while optimizing non-timing-critical portions for area.

Timing-driven synthesis preserves timing constraints, and does not perform optimizations that conflict with timing constraints. Timing-driven synthesis may increase the number of required device resources. Specifically, the number of adaptive look-up tables (ALUTs) and registers may increase. The overall area can increase or decrease. Runtime and peak memory use increases slightly.

Timing-Driven Synthesis prevents registers with incompatible timing constraints from merging for any Optimization Technique setting. If your design contains multiple partitions, you can select Timing-Driven Synthesis options for each partition. If you use a .qxp as a source file, or if your design uses partitions developed in separate Quartus® Prime projects, the software cannot properly compute timing of paths that cross the partition boundaries.