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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Does initiation interval of 1 means no need for unrollment?

I have one basic question. In case of Single-Thread mode kernels, if I have one single loop and I'll be able to achieve initiation interval of one, is it still beneficial to unroll the loop? My assum...
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8 years ago

II = 1 means , you can go one step forward at each clock cycles,

unroll can increase number of processing at each step.

so, your total performance is (step/clock)*(process/step) = process/clock