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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

Cyclone V speed is much slower

Hello. I am new to Cyclone V. I took my design for Cyclone III and recompiled it with Quartus II web 13.1. From the timing analyzer, I can see that the maximum clock rate is only 84 Mhz while I was...
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10 years ago

Move to a later version of Quartus (15.0)

The timing models were not final in Quartus 13.1 for Cyclone V and were very conservative (overly so).

You should see much improved timing performance in Quartus 15.0.

Pete