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17 years ago

Retaining unused logic with Quartus?

I have some logic that is entirely unattached to anything else in a design (and intentionally so), but I don't want Quartus to remove it. It looks fine in the synthesized .vqm, but it gets yanked be...
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17 years ago

May I ask what logic that is entirely unattached to anything else in a design is good for? Some days ago I tried to fill up an FPGA up to 100% LE usage by implementing weird logic connected to nothing. The only way to have the logic really be implemented was to connect it to pins.