Multi-Threading in RTL Synthesis - 2023.2 English

Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis (UG901)

Document ID
UG901
Release Date
2023-11-01
Version
2023.2 English

On multiprocessor systems, RTL synthesis leverages multiple CPU cores by default (up to four) to speed up compile times.

The maximum number of simultaneous threads varies, depending on the number of processors available on the system, the OS, and the stage of the flow (see Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Implementation (UG904)).

The general.maxThreads Tcl parameter, which is common to all threads in Vivado, gives you control to specify the number of threads to use when running RTL synthesis. For example:

Vivado% set_param general.maxThreads <new limit>

Where the <new limit> must be an integer from 1 to 8 inclusive. For RTL synthesis, 4 is the maximum number of threads that can be set effectively.