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9 years ago

Moving from Cyclone III to MAX10.

We run out of LEs on Cyclone III so we decided to move to MAX10. Is it straight forward or it has some issues we should pay attention? One of the problems – Cyclone III has an external program mem...
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9 years ago

You should pay attention to:

1- Number of PLLs. If you will use max10 of 144-pin package, it has one PLL only.

2- Some members of the MAX10 does not support pre-initialized memory. So if you have a ROM or NIOS (program is inside the on-chip RAM) you will need to use the chip number that supports the pre-initialized memory.

3- Refer to https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/an/an741.pdf (https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/an/an741.pdf)

to know the remote update for the MAX10 family. I don't know if that document will help with rpd programming file issue.

4- From my experience, the single supply Max10 consumes large power. Note that the current is consumed from 3/3.3V supply not from 1.2V like Cyclone 3