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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
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14 years agojag1972 to try to fit your design in the device I would optimize where you can. For example your minout and secout only needs to be 6 bits each since you only need to count to 60. This will save both registers and logic for the adder. Also, don't use a full 32 bit integer for the "count" it only needs 25-bits. This could also save some resources unless the tool is already optimizing it to that.
/Boris