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Measure or Estimate Power Usage

Altera_Forum
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‎02-02-2015 01:40 PM
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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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‎02-16-2015 10:02 AM
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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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Altera_Forum
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‎02-16-2015 10:22 AM
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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.

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