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17 years ago

VHDL Porting from Altera to Actel

Hi Guys,

I am currently designing a FPGA based camera system for a small satellite, its for my masters thesis. As my knowledge is very limited to fpga and vhdl its quite a learning curve. My Question : As space is full of radiation, and it can cause serious issues, is is posible to do development on an altera dev kit de2-70 multimedia one and then just resynth it for a say actel rad hard device.

Kind Regards

Jacques Kleynhans

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    17 years ago

    For the radiation resistant feature to be meaningful at all, you have to perform timing analysis for the target platform with a degraded timing model, hopefully available for the device.

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    17 years ago

    Hi,

    portable design is posible wit some restrictions and problems:

    - amount of resource in either case and speed limitations

    - use inference only. i.e. don't instantiate any altera specific modules

    - you can test that as you build up by running double compilations.