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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

NIOS II Power and Heat management

Hi, I am looking for a way to bring down power and heat in a design with several instances of a NIOS II prosessor. I have tried holding the processor in reset mode to freeze it, but this produ...
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20 years ago

I have a few questions:

What device are you targetting?

How many Nios II cores are you using?

What speed(s) is the circuit running at?

What does your Quartus project use for unused I/O? (assuming you have spare I/O)

What is your device utilization? (LEs/ALUTs and memory)