Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
16 years ago

Arria II GX GigE perf

We have applied the optimizations as suggested in the AN440 to an Arria II GX, but are still only seeing it use 100.5 Mbits/sec when sending data out to a workstation. To confirm that the system is ...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
16 years ago

Bare in mind your bottleneck here is not the FPGA but the performance of the NIOS II processor. The FPGA is capable of performing faster than any workstation. But you'll never get a ~100MHz - ~150MHz NIOS processor to perform at that level.

Jake