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16 years ago

Compressed bit streams???

What's the deal with the compressed bit streams in Quartus? I have "Generate Compressed Bitstreams" option turned on in Settings/Device/Device and Pin Options/Configuration. I have the c...
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16 years ago

An uncompressed *.pof can't be smaller than the specified configuration file size for a specific device, a compressed file usually is. Try different EPCS types for your design and you'll see.

As an example, EP3C16 or EPC3C25 configuration only fits an EPCS4 when compressed.