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10 years ago

Cyclone V: 100% of LABs used in report, but not in Chip Planner

Hi I'm making a design in which I'm seeing some strange differences between the compiler report and what it's seen in the Chip Planner: In the Compiler report, the use of LABs reaches a 10...
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10 years ago

Hi,

Well, what I'm more concerned about is the use of LABs...

Each LAB contains 10 ALMs, and according to the Chip Planner, about the 25% southern LABs are completely empty (and given that most of the used ones in the center of the layout are just half-used, that 74% of ALMs still seems too much too me)

I still don't see how are the report numbers related to the Chip Planner actual results.