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11 years ago

SignalTap power consumption

I have a quite large SignalTap instance in my design for debugging. Now I am curios if this will consume considerable power during normal operation (i.e. no JTAG connected) or if this will be negligi...
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11 years ago

You were right: I compiled the design without SignalTap and got a reduction of about 400mW in my design - more than I would have expected. (But it was really a large SignalTap, it used about half of the memory of a Cyclone IV GX110.)

Thanks,

Thomas

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