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10 years ago

MAX+plus II 8.0

Ok, first off, I know that version 8.0 of MAX+plus II, from 1997, is old, obsolete, etc. However, I'm desperately trying to recreate a build of some old VHDL code in an attempt to reproduce a binary ...
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10 years ago

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Some FPGA tools use random numbers to make routing decisions. If this is the case with your MAX+ tool, you won't be able to reproduce the build without the random number seed used to create the build.

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Geez, I sure hope that's not the case...

The Altera Configuration File for the build does not specify any sort of random number seed, so I'm assuming/hoping that this version of MAX+plus II doesn't use random numbers.

I did the front end synthesis using Synopsys Synplify version 3.0, and it produced identical results to a build from 1997, so it doesn't appear to use random numbers.