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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 t...
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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.