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7 years ago

vector_add example - measuring the performance

Hello, I have executed the vector_add example on the DE10-Standard board and got the following output. It took 6.9ms kernel time to perform the floating point add operation on 1M elements. So,...
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7 years ago

Your expectation is incorrect, you would not be able to achieve 100 GFLOP/s even using Stratix V, let alone the low-end Cyclone V FPGA on that board. Furthermore, Altera's vector add example is just a basic example to show functionality and is not designed to achieve optimal performance.