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FPGA Internal - Lookup Tables (LUTs)

Altera_Forum
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‎05-08-2012 01:21 PM
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Hi, 

 

Im wondering why does the FPGA have lookup tables? What do they do? :confused:
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Altera_Forum
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‎05-08-2012 01:50 PM
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All the logic is implemented in look up tables. So no actual gates are created, the output of each LUT is just the result of N inputs addressing into the LUT.

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