Altera® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Settings File Reference Manual

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Date 5/08/2017
Public
Document Table of Contents

1.2.99. MERCURY_OPTIMIZATION_TECHNIQUE

Specifies the overall optimization goal for Analysis & Synthesis: attempt to maximize performance or minimize logic usage.

Old Name

Optimization Technique -- Mercury

Type

Enumeration

Values

  • Area
  • Speed

Device Support

Mercury

Notes

This assignment is included in the Analysis & Synthesis report.

This assignment supports synthesis wildcards.

Syntax


		set_global_assignment -name MERCURY_OPTIMIZATION_TECHNIQUE <value>
		set_global_assignment -name MERCURY_OPTIMIZATION_TECHNIQUE -entity <entity name> <value>
		set_instance_assignment -name MERCURY_OPTIMIZATION_TECHNIQUE -to <to> -entity <entity name> <value>
	

Default Value

Area

Example


		set_global_assignment -name mercury_optimization_technique speed