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15 years ago

How can I make my design smaller in a MAX3000

Hi all! I seem to have run into some trouble with a MAX3000A Device. I had to port over some code that was created in a .bdf (with some AHDL) to VHDL. It was a pretty straight forward process ...
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15 years ago

Hi,

"optimisation is spending 3 hours to remove only 2 registers :-) "

Remove registers :-D LOL , remove pipelines

Reduce counters (optimize their size, use divided clock, share counters, restrict range, restrict signals...)

Help, assist the synthesizer by putting (). It helps a lot.

Restructure.