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11 years ago

Measure or Estimate Power Usage

Hi everyone,

I am trying to determine the GFLOPs per Watt for the aocl kernels that I wrote. I am just wondering if there is any way to measure or estimate runtime power usage of FPGA/board in software? I use de5-net development board. Thanks!

Regards,

Ryan

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    Altera_Forum
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    11 years ago

    I pass the project through Quartus II, make place-route-implement, and then run the power estimation tool. Not very accurate without simulation data, but you can get an idea.

    George
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    11 years ago

    Thank you George! I'll try that. I know it's possible to use pci-e riser card and current probe but was just trying to see if there are simpler methods.