Current module quartus_fit was unexpectedly terminated by signal 9

[matferronato]

Hello,

I found some other topics discussing this issue, but couldn't find an answer to my problem.

Currently, my design consumes most of the a available logic in the FPGA.

When I try to run the fitter, quartus will stop place and route in different stages showing the error

"Current module quartus_fit was unexpectedly terminated by signal 9"

This happens during different steps of the fitter, sometimes during Placement, sometimes during Routing, and sometimes (very infrequently ) it won't  happen at all. Each step is taking around 30min, so every time it fails it costs me greatly.

Is there a way to dig deeper in the logs and find why this is happening? I understand it is either because it quartus fir performed illegal operation or because the system resources have been exhausted. But i'd like to go deeper and understand which resources... (maybe I need more memory?), or which illegal operation caused this issue.

Is that possible?

My current environment is:

OS : Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

CPU : 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11850H 

Memory : 31GB

Target FPGA: AGFB014R24B2E2V

Quartus Version : 22.4

Thanks for your help.

[sstrell]

Agilex 7?  If it's a large design, you may want more RAM there (like 64).  You could also try reinstalling Quartus or update to the latest 23.4.

[matferronato]

Hi sstrell.

Indeed an Agilex device. It seems that the computers resources are being exhausted.

Does intel provide any info on the minimum specs required to correctly synthesize a design to a target architecture?

I can understand why the lack of memory had me consistently fail place and route, what I don't get is why sometimes it worked.

Does anyone know a possible workaround? (besides upgrade memory/cpu)

Thanks for your help

[aesq · Accepted solution]

64 GB apparently, so twice more than what you have:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/683706/23-4/disk-space-and-memory-recommendations.html

[SyafieqS]

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[matferronato]

Thanks for your help.

Updating my machine memory should do the trick