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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

FPGA power consumption

Hey guys, I'm doing a comparison of performance of FPGAs and GPUs, right now I'm looking at the power consumption part. So I use the PowerMonitor.exe provided by Arria10 package, and the power doe...
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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

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Would you know does the sensor on Arria10 includes the power of the memory?

The options includes VCCRAM/ VCCMEM...etc so I assume the top one VCC includes everything?

Not sure what does the others stand for, nothing mentioned in the manual.

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These options that you are talking about seem to be the supply volatge of different componenets on the board. I am not really sure what they mean in case of your board. My board has an actual power sensor that directly reports Wattage for all of the board.