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11 years ago

Short vs Int vs Floating Point usage in Kernels

I'm just wondering if anyone else has successfully used smaller fixed point representations for data in their kernels compared to floating point. By that I mean I'm playing around with changing my a...
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11 years ago

Is the resource usage gotten after the "place and route"? or just the estimation?

the kernel only has one arithmetic operation, whose resource usage is much smaller than that of the kernel overhead. Try more arithmetic operations in the kernel. BTW, more CUs cannot help.