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15 years ago

Determine resources of own SOPC component

Hello,

I wrote my own SOPC component. Is it possible to determine how much resources my component needs? How much Logic Cells and Memory Bits...

Thanks for your assistance!

Best regards,

ToniB

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    Altera_Forum
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    15 years ago

    take a look at the synthesis/fit reports, you should be able to find the resource usage by entity or similar

    alternatively you can set your HDL at the top level of a QII project and look at the synthesis/fit reports directly
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    15 years ago

    I typically compile the component as the top level and assign the ports to virtual I/O. This will prevent the fitter from taking my registers and cramming them into the I/O of the device. This will give you a worst case resource utilization number since when your component is in a real system the synthesis engine can perform various packing optimizations with other surrounding logic.