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10 years ago

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Hello, I am building my first from-scratch FPGA project. I’m using a Max10 10M02SC 153-MBGA, but my design is really simple. I really only need to use one bank because I only need about 16 I...
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9 years ago

Hi James,

So far, it has worked out pretty well. I never figured out why sending that signal to an I/O fixed the timing issue, but it seems like it did. I can use that signal for testing anyway.

The internal oscillator works; just be careful because (as you probably noticed) the datasheet gives it a HUGE tolerance. It will save a little money on an external oscillator, but your design must be very tolerant of using different frequencies (mine is). I had another project take my focus, but we plan to return to it shortly and finish testing. However, in the tests we did run, everything seemed really good, thank God.

I hope yours goes well!

Robert