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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Nios II and Hardware/Software co-simulation

Hello, I am interested in comparing the performance of the Nios II processor, with and without a custom instruction that I have developed, when running some benchmarking software algorithms. ...
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20 years ago

Thanks,

Do you have any idea of the time that modelsim should take in order to simulate on a modern PC? Is it practical? My software benchmark should take quite a few seconds to run if FPGA hardware were actually to be used, and I need to run the benchmark quite a few times. I may also need to debug some code.

Paul