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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Build for multiple speed grades

I have a design for speed grade C8. Now purchase would like to buy chips with speed grade C7. Will the binary that was build for speed grade C8 function properly in a chip with speed grade C7 ? ...
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15 years ago

if you actually add migration devices you have changed the .qsf and you may need to recompile. however, the existing compilation database can be re-timed using the faster speed grade without going through a full compile