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Can we get two versions?
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The subscription license is not on a per version basis. I typically have several versions of Quartus installed.
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The XD2000's manual is from 2009 and recommends to use quartus v8.1. I was going to try
v11 to see if it works, since 8.1 is already an old version. But I'm afraid that we get stuck with v8.1 because of manual
optimizations and settings made by xtremedata.
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The XD2000 is just an FPGA in co-processor socket. Whatever optimizations they made in Quartus 8.1 will be available, or unnecessary in 12.1sp1.
I would recommend installing 8.1 to ensure you can build a design that meets timing. The timing constraints will be in Classic Timing Analyzer format. To synthesize in 12.1sp1, you will need to convert the timing constraints to TimeQuest SDC format. I would recommend doing that manually, so that you are forced to understand where the original timing constraints came from, eg., the processor specification for the socket that the FPGA replaces.
Cheers,
Dave
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