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15 years ago

migration devices and .pof files

I have a simple question about migration devices in Quartus II. I have a design where the board could be populated with an EP4SGX230DF29C4 or the same part in either the -180, -110, or -70 size. Th...
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15 years ago

you will have to recompile for each part.

the advantage of device migration is that Quartus will check your pinout to make sure it is legal with any of the devices you may migrate to. for example, higher density devices in the same package may have fewer user I/O and more VCC/GND pins. migration will make sure you don't use any of the pins which are legal in the small device that may not be usable if you migrate to one of the larger (logic wise) devices.