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JStan7
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4 years ago
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10CL006 vs EP4CE6 compatibility

We made a design with 10CL006YU256I7G... At the moment this FPGA is difficult to buy, because of ???. Therefore I checked the predecessor from Cyclone IV series. The EP4CE6U14I7N. It seems this part...
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    YuanLi_S_Intel
    4 years ago

    It is not recommended but it works sometimes. The reason is RBF is a raw binary data, which means the data in it is the pure bitstream instead of having Intel FPGA own header and etc. However, some of the IP available in Cyclone 10 LP might not supported in cyclone IV. In that case, you should generate the RBF with the SOF compiled from Cyclone IV.


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YuanLi_S_Intel
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4 years ago

It is not recommended but it works sometimes. The reason is RBF is a raw binary data, which means the data in it is the pure bitstream instead of having Intel FPGA own header and etc. However, some of the IP available in Cyclone 10 LP might not supported in cyclone IV. In that case, you should generate the RBF with the SOF compiled from Cyclone IV.