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Abstract The present paper studies amplitude death in high-dimensional maps coupled by time-delay connections. A linear stability analysis provides several sufficient conditions for an amplitude death state to be unstable, i.e., an odd number property and its extended properties. Furthermore, necessary conditions for stability are provided. These conditions, which reduce trial-and-error tasks for design, and the convex direction, which is a popular concept in the field of robust control, allow us to propose a design procedure for system parameters, such as coupling strength, connection delay, and input–output matrices, for a given network topology. These analytical results are confirmed numerically using delayed logistic maps, generalized Henon maps, and piecewise linear maps.