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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 ...
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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