I am aware that it is easier to run a static timing analysis on a CPLD than a FPGA, but why is this?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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Sign up to join this communityBasically, a CPLD has far fewer choices in terms of the number of different kinds of paths through which a signal can flow from one register to the next, which means that the job of analyzing all of the different combinations of paths is reduced by many orders of magnitude.