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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

How to measure the running time in FPGA?

Hi, I am a new FPGA learner using quartus2 and stratix2 and I have a very basic question: when running circuit on the board, how can I measure the exact time needed from one state to another state, w...
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13 years ago

If you know your circuit, you can figure out how many clock cycles it takes. Then you just multiply it by clock period ( -- 1/frequency).

You can also just simulate your circuit and measure the timings.