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12 years ago

speeding up a software program originally wriiten in c

i am newbie to fpgas programming. I have been programming in c and Fortran for many years. I want to speed up a c program hopefully, by 100x. I have already speeded it up by 8x by using a mul...
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12 years ago

Create a dataflow diagram from c source with a tool : good luck !

You can "speed up" a c program by many ways :

- redesign the project from draft to produce a digital schema (And , or, not, D flip flop) Finite state machine which FPGAs are intended for.

- convert some functions in VHDL (Altera call them "accelerated C functions") which can partially speed up the borad.

- ...

It highly depends of your project.