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19 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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19 years ago

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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.:)

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Thank you for your reply.

We will use the PPC just for management, not for signal processing.

So the HDL will "run" on the FPGA with no help from the PPC.

Our system contains x boards, each contains y FPGAs.

Can we use simulink to simulate such system ?

Thanks.