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11 years ago

Cost of implementation of logic and arithmetic operations

Hello Members, My question: What is the cost of implementation, in terms of logic elements, frequency, memories, area ..., of the logic and arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, mu...
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11 years ago

There is no such data available, because the synthesisor can do lots of work to minimise logic usage depending on your design. Also, the device family has a large effect on resource usage depending on whether it uses 4/6 input LUTs.

So there is no such thing as logic usage for a basic block.