Seeing Cyclone
V architecture is almost like a dream comes true, at least for me. If you told me that this will be the Cyclone
V architecture ten years ago, I would laugh at you right away, “Are you sure
you are not talking about Stratix?”
By the way,
your fear is true, Quartus II compilation for Cyclone V FPGA device requires
Windows 64-bit OS. I had tried to
compile a few designs targeting Cyclone V FPGA using a 32-bit Windows 7
Professional laptop with 4Gbytes memory, it all ended with failure due to out
of memory. In fact, one of the designs was a relatively
small design with around 1800 logic elements using the smallest Cyclone V GX
device 5CGXFC3BF7F23C8.
Anyway,
this is not a nightmare. You just need
to plan ahead by preparing yourself a PC with Windows 64-bit OS if you are
serious in using any Cyclone V device in your new design.
Well, compiling a simple 32-bit counter won’t crash, though.
1 comment:
Its old now but still feel good reading your blog post. Nowadays all windows are 64 bits so it won't be a problem. I haven't used cyclone or altera anyway but got lots of tips about it from the book The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs
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