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8 years ago

MAX V Support Life

Hi, I am planning to switch my design to MAX 5 as the current part that I am using (MAX3000A) has EOL-ed. Is MAX 5 recommended for new design? Will it EOL in the next 5 to 10 years? If MAX ...
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8 years ago

A different macro cell utilization is expectable due to the different architecture. MAX V 4-input-LUT is less effective if a logic term has many inputs.

We need to look at the code to determine if it might be optimized, e.g. by changing the state variable coding. Using a high level description according to Altera state machine templates should generally give good results.