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SWilb1
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6 years ago

Will the 5CEFA4U19 chip work without some power pins connected as suggested by the Quartus migration feature.

I am designing a Cyclone V E (U19-484 pins) board to have vertical migration from A4 to A9. I used the migration feature in Quartus with 5CEFA4U19 as the target and the A5, A7 and A9 chips selected t...
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a_x_h_75
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6 years ago

No firm answer in here I'm afraid. I saw you post this previously, thought it sounded wrong and assumed you weren't doing something correctly. So I did some tests and concluded exactly the same as you.

I have successfully used device migration previously, both with Cyclone IV and V (not that package), without issue. I'm pretty sure I'd have checked the power pins, as you have. I assume (I cannot recall) that I didn't find any inconsistencies.

There are plenty of devices (Intel and beyond) that share power pins internally such that both A4 & A9 would work correctly. However, I'm not in a position to confirm this either way for this device.

I suggest you raise a ticket via MyIntel

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/my-intel/sign-in.html

Cheers,

Alex