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18 years ago

how to estimate whole power in codesign application

hi!

I use the Quartus II 6.1 in my work

Ineed to estimate the power of a program implanting on the FPGA (Altera Startix)

my projet was composed on two parts (software and hardward) so I need the power of tow parts of projet

when using " poweranalyser tool"in the quartus II I estimate only hardware part

what can I do?

thank you

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    18 years ago

    Do you mean the software part is a code for a processor like NIOS II? The synthesis and fitting tool gives you the LUT, I/O and memory consumption of each of your design modules. You can find out the consumption of resources by the processor/microcontroller from the compilation report, feed it in the power calculator and find out the power consumption.