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18 years ago

Using Simulink for Signal Processing on FPGA

Hello, I want to use an FPGA (e.g Xilinx Virtex 2 Pro 70) for signal processing. The FPGA will run many "processes" in parallel. Is it wise to use Matlab's Simulink to "draw" the blocks an...
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18 years ago

THe Virtex II Pro 70 contains both Slices (containing LUTs & FlipFlops), Memory Blocks (and other boolean stuff) and an Embedded Power PC 405 (PPC405) RISC processor.

The MatLab / Simulink models (to the best of my knowledge) generate HDL code which results in LUT & F/F realizations of the structures you are modeling.

I do not think that it will generate "c" code for execution on the embedded PPC processor code in the V2Pro, that is what I am saying (subject to any recent enhancements that I am not aware of).

The code will run just fine in the V2P70, I am just suggesting that you will get better performance and lower power utilizations in the newer Stratix II and Stratix III offerings from Altera.

That's all.:)