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Henry
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7 years ago

How to heat FPGA at max power consumption?

I am new to Intel FPGA. Is there any code or tutorial about stress FPGA at max power consumption? I try to use a lot of register, however compiler seems will simplify my design, so that I can't get...
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AndyN
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7 years ago

Try this:

(* noprune *) logic [N3-1:0] toggles = '0;
 
always_ff @(posedge clk500) toggles <= ~toggles;

I've found the noprune directive to be more reliable than don't_touch for some reason...

Andy