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JGuerra
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6 years ago

Different FPGAs (different amount of ALMs), same Estimated Resource Usage given by OpenCL compiler

Hi everyone, I've implemented a OpenCL kernel and compiling it for two different FPGAs with two different amounts of ALMs, the compiler generates the same estimated resource usage: ; Estimated Reso...
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Douglas_P_Intel
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6 years ago

Hi,

The resources used by the BSP are listed in the board_spec.xml file located in the hardware/device directory of the BSP. (for example hardware/c10gx) It's possible Terasic forgot to update that file when creating the BSP. It's just a text file, so you can edit it if you want. However, the estimates shown using the -report option are very approximate. For a much better estimate, please use the report.html file.

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