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16 years ago

cyclone 3 restricted fmax

Hi, at some point during my work I needed to use a higher frequency clock in Cyclone 3 (EP3C16) speedgrade -8 and thought of a 400 MHz clock. In the Cyclone 3 Handbook volume 2 table 1-19 it i...
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16 years ago

Tricky,

you haven't read my post carefully... I know about fmax and design but i have no idea why the 238 restricted fmax (second column in timequest->report fmax) is there... my understanding it should be 402 instead of 238... right?