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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

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Hello, I just decided to try to upgrade my 5.1 quartus to 9.0. The problem I encounter is that in 5.1 i compile the project and get the design consisting of 4,800 elements (chip can hold 4,992)...
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15 years ago

Go to the hierarchy browser(Project Navigator) in the top-left and look at why it grew in size. There's going to be a specific reason why it grew this big. If I were guessing, something that was synthesizing to RAM is now going into FFs. Perhaps a state-machine grew in size, but not most likely. It's most likely not going to be a generic "everything got bigger because the synthesis" but a specific problem that can be debugged.