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Altera_Forum
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14 years agoFitter problem
Hi All, I have embarked on a project to develop a stopwatch which outputs seconds and minutes as a binary value. I am using two separate 8-bit LED boards connected to the MAX7000S ...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
14 years agoI don't know much of MAX7000S but it's possible your design fits into the available logic elements but it requires excessive routing resources. In other words your MAX7000S has not enough wires inside to connect all the required signals.
EPM7128 has 128 macrocells, namely 'only' 128 flip flops. I guess your design is using most of them; the interconnect matrix is probably quite loaded, too. In order to free some resources; I'd remove the following: if(minout = "11111111") then minout<="00000000"; end if; minout will automatically overflow to 0 after it has reached the all-1 state. You can also limit secout size to 6 bits, since the upper two are always 0.