Swift8051
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4 years agoStratix 10 hold time doubt, low resource occupation FPGA
Hi everybody,
I have a curiosity/information related to Intel / Altera FPGAs (eg Stratix 10). A collegue of mine stated that if the FPGA is almost empty as for FW resource occupation, there can be...
- 4 years ago
I've never heard of such a thing either.
Hold time violations occur because of "too fast" signaling, causing signals to not be held long enough after a long edge. A mostly empty device gives the Fitter basically an infinite number of possibilities for placing and routing a small design that will meet timing as long as correct timing constraints are created. The Fitter will follow the constraints to meet timing, not just put stuff close together because it can.