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8 years ago

Looking for bigger, fasterFPGA with on-chip flash/imamge/code..

Hi guys. New here. New to Altera. I am looking for a new FPGA for a project i am working on - something with on chip flash/image/code, like possibly the Max 10 series. I developed a p...
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8 years ago

This is from memory, so you may want to double check:

A MAX10 Logic Element (LE) contains a 4-input LUT and a register. A LAB contains 10 LE.

A Spartan3 slice contains also a 4-input LUT and a register. A CLB contains 4 slices.

You can find the numbers you need here

https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/data_sheets/ds706.pdf (page 1)

https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/max-10/m10_overview.pdf (page 6)

But from a cursory look, it seems that the biggest MAX10 is considerably bigger than the biggest Spartan-3N in all aspects.