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Altera_Forum
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14 years agoAs said, Altera doesn't provide the transistor level netlists required by an ASIC design tool like NanoSim. Quartus has an powerplay as it's own power analysis tool. Refer to the Quartus software handbook to learn about it#s features.
Basically, it would be possible to estimate typical capacitance values of LEs, registers and other resources for dynamic power consumption calculations, either from Quartus PowerPlay results or from your own electrical measurements. But I wonder, if it serves any purpose and can e.g. give more accurate results than the PowerPlay tool itself.