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gschorcht
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5 years ago

Fitter can't fit a small design in Cyclone V SE that fits in a much smaller Cyclone IV device

Hi, When I try to compile a design for a Cyclone V 5CSEMA5 that works perfectly on a much smaller Cyclone IV, the fitter says: Info (170195): Router estimated average interconnect usage is 2% ...
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5 years ago

Hi @gschorcht


May I know does the suggestion from sstrell helps?

Do you need further help in regards to this case?

Best Regards,

Richard Tan

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5 years ago

Hi,

thanks for your answers. There are no other placement requirements than the pin assignments which seem to be correct.

I have also played with fitter setting according to the Routing Resource Usage section in Resource Optimization Advisor with no success. Even though the Chip Planner reports a maximum routing utilization of 77 %, the blocks reported in error messages are different.

Regards
Gunar