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14 years ago

how many logic gates a logic element has? Urgent!

Hi guys, I am wondering how many logic gates a logic element has? The reason why I ask is, someone ask me how many logic gate my circuit has, but Quartus compilation report only gives the nu...
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14 years ago

one logic element can contain several "gates". Each LE is just a look up table, and depending on the device, it may have 4 5 or 6 input LUTs, which could have several gates in the function.

Just quote him the LE usage, or multiply this by 2 as a guess.