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15 years ago

Hardware VS Software

I am doing some performance analysis for hardware and software. The program will generate a set of random 32 bits number. these numbers will be send to a user peripheral (hardware) for addition. then...
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15 years ago

If you are shipping really short amounts of work to the accelerator then yes software will be faster due to the communication overhead. The only way this could be efficient is if you perform the same operation across a large block of data in memory and you use DMAs to stuff the data into the accelerator.