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11 years ago

AOC compiler, Estimated Resource Usage report !!!!!!

Hello, I'm currently using the Arrow SocKit of Altera (http://www.altera.com/b/arrow-sockit.html). To do this, I'm using OpenCl instead of VHDL. Compiling the vectAdd example using the...
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11 years ago

Those estimated resources include the board support package (all the interfaces and controllers needed to create an entire FPGA accelerator system) as well as your kernel. If you browse through some of the log files from your compilation you may find the resources for the kernel only, which on my system is very small. For such small designs the estimated resources are almost always dominated by the board support package.