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14 years ago

Timequest makes timings but not the real stratix IV hardware

I am having problems making actual timings on the real hardware. I'm actually trying to upgrade from a stratix III to a stratix IV. The design works on a stratix III. After I've set up a ba...
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14 years ago

I actually observe the problem outside the chip. I have a DAC and I observe the problem on the waveform itself. Only then did I go and use the signal tap to try to isolate the problem. The distortions I get in the captured signals with signal tap are pretty much aligned with what I observe outside the chip.