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12 years ago

create megawizard components without megawizard

Hello all, I am trying to do as much as possible with the commandline and tcl scripts. Now I know it is possible to create some already defined component with the megawizard, but I don't know h...
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12 years ago

yes, the PLL has a load of generics, and I wouldnt trust myself to set them all, so I would always use the megawizard for this. Plus as new technologies come along they add more generics to the PLL definition that means that one instantiated with Q13 may not be backwards compatible with 12 etc because of the extra generics.

Stuff like FIFOs and Altsyncrams dont change a lot over time, so you should be ok.