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12 years ago

Comparing xilinx with altera designs

Hello every body;

I have finished my design on alter stratix III chipe, the optimization results obtained from Quartus have Combinational Luts and Memory Luts. I want to compare my design with another one based on xilinx-vertix5, which show his results in xilinx slices, how can i found a comon measures of the two designs

Thanks.

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    12 years ago

    Usually, the resource usage should be fairly comparable. But it will be difficult to compare, as I think Stratix 3 uses 4 input LUT and virtex is 6 (IIRC)?

    But it is much better and more useful to compare these things:

    - memory and DSP usage

    - FMax

    - Cost.