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14 years ago

Need a crash course in FPGAs

I just, uh, "discovered" FPGAs about a week ago and from what I've learned so far, they seem perfectly suited for vector control of an induction motor, compared to running a 100k lines of C code thro...
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14 years ago

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Why can't I design the hardware then have Quartus tell me which devices will work?

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You can. Just set Quartus to auto select and it will chose a device to fit your design into. But in many cases, you need to design the board the same time you're designing the firmware. But its usually the IOs that is the most important.