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17 years ago

Design won't fit in device

Hi, I'm trying to get a design to fit in a Stratix III EP3SL340H1152CS device. I get an error saying that the fitter requires 13555 LABs to implement but device only contains 13520 LABs. ...
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17 years ago

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Hi,

Your resource problem is the logic, not memory blocks as indicated by the error message(LABs).

The notion of 85% or so is sort of rule of thumb for fmax. The fitter doesn't follow this rule. It will fit as long as there is resource until 100% if necessary.

Kaz

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What settings are using ? E.g. optimize for speed or physical synthesis ....