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Florin_S
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5 years ago
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EP20K200EFC484-3/-2

What are the differences between EP20K200EFC484-3(N) and EP20K200EFC484-2(N) ? We're having some EoL issues for "-3" MPN, and we're wondering if we can use some faster FPGAs "-2" suffix as replacem...
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    ChiaLing_T_Intel
    5 years ago

    Hi Florin,

    You are recommended to re-program the device since there were still some slightly different between -2 speed grade and -3 speed grade device according to the device datasheet.

    Thank you

    Regards,

    Chia Ling


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ChiaLing_T_Intel
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5 years ago

Hi Florin,

Thank you for contacting Intel Community. To know the difference between the EP20K200EFC484-3(N) and

EP20K200EFC484-2(N) is the speed grade. For details, kindly refer to the APEX 20K datasheet:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ds/archives/apex.pdf

Next, please be noted that APEX 20K device families were obsolete since 2017 according to PDN1619.

https://www.intel.fr/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/pcn/pdn1619.pdf

There are limited support on the obsolete part.

Thank you

Regards,

Chia Ling


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    Florin_S
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    5 years ago

    Hello.

    Thanks a lot for you reply.

    From what I saw, there is no big difference in speed of -2 compared to -3.

    If the source files for FPGA programming were done for -3 speed variant, do you think the same source files will work on -2 chip, without further programming adjustments?

    Regards,

    Florin