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13 years ago

Upgrade Altera Cyclone II fpga device

Hallo, i use a Cyclone II EP2C35F484C8 device. We always have problems with overload of CPU. The TimeQuest Timing Analyzer reports timing problems of the CPU takt (required: 120MHz, actually: ...
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13 years ago

Hello kosh271,

thanks for your answer.

"you might try adding pipeline stages in your sopc fabric first"

Do you mean NIOS II settings in SOPC? In my design the NIOS is set to NIOS II/f. It runs with 120MHz. There may however sometimes overload.

I think, the choice of other device of this series with higher speed grade may resolve this problem.

Are there other disadvantages to the use of EP2C35F484C6?