Intel® Quartus® Prime Standard Edition User Guide: Design Compilation

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Date 9/24/2018
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3.4.8. Restructure Multiplexers

The Restructure Multiplexers logic option restructures multiplexers to create more efficient use of area, allowing you to implement multiplexers with a reduced number of LEs or ALMs.

When multiplexers from one part of your design feed multiplexers in another part of your design, trees of multiplexers form. Multiplexers may arise in different parts of your design through Verilog HDL or VHDL constructs such as the “if,” “case,” or “?:” statements. Multiplexer buses occur most often as a result of multiplexing together arrays in Verilog HDL, or STD_LOGIC_VECTOR signals in VHDL. The Restructure Multiplexers logic option identifies buses of multiplexer trees that have a similar structure. This logic option optimizes the structure of each multiplexer bus for the target device to reduce the overall amount of logic in your design.

Results of the multiplexer optimizations are design dependent, but area reductions as high as 20% are possible. The option can negatively affect your design’s fMAX.