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Sensia_ENG_1
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4 years ago
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Faster speed grade and voltage change - Do I need to rebuild?

I did a quick search and didn't find anything regarding my question. We have an older design using a Cyclone IV EP4CE22F17I8LN. Because of the component shortage issues, we are forced to use a EP4C...
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    sstrell
    4 years ago

    Hate to say it, but you probably have to recompile. There are very few situations I can think of where you would be able to get away with not recompiling if you're moving to a different device. You could certainly try and test the current programming file to see if it works, though (nice thing about FPGAs).

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sstrell
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4 years ago

Hate to say it, but you probably have to recompile. There are very few situations I can think of where you would be able to get away with not recompiling if you're moving to a different device. You could certainly try and test the current programming file to see if it works, though (nice thing about FPGAs).