Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorI have some limited experience with NIOS, so what I write is a more general answer.
Having said that, you need to look into the cycle count of each operation. This one line of code actually does three things: 1. multiply v and t 2. substract that result from S0 3. store that result in S Then you need to know the types of the inputs and results. Floating point arithmetic may take longer than integer calculations. Then you need to know how much of those 3 steps are run in one cycle. Generally the store comes "free" with any other operation, i.e. it does not have a cost in cycles. On top of this the compiler may do some compiler magic so you don't exactly know the cycle count until you take a look at the assembler code, or write your own assembly code. As long as you know the cycle count you can calculate the time it takes to execute one loop iteration (the a loop also takes instructions, unless it is unrolled).
