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I'm trying to systematically analyse some results I've obtained with Altera OpenCL, having done so for an equivalent design under Vivado HLS.
For the latter I am using LUTs and FFs utilization for discussion of the Pareto Optimization process. However, on the Altera side multiple *stuff* is reported. Say the report acl_quartus_report.txt
ALUTs: 136630
Registers: 232,832
Logic utilization: 121,749 / 172,600 ( 70 % )
I/O pins: 305 / 664
DSP blocks: 7 / 1,590
Memory bits: 3,811,290 / 41,246,720
M20K blocks: 1,224 / 2,014
Actual clock freq: 222.60999963
Kernel fmax: 222.61
1x clock fmax: 222.61
2x clock fmax: 10000
Highest non-global fanout: 5038
I know how many registers there are, based on the Stratix V specification datasheets, so I can report utilization levels of registers as a percentage. However, an ALUT, AFAIK, is something less obvious. For the one it is not reported how many ALUTs a device has. Correct me if I'm wrong. As I understand, a single LUT can provide 2 ALUTs, so 2 ALUTs can be using a single LUT, or each ALUT can be using an LUT, right? On the other hand, I also don't know how many LUTs the FPGA has. I know ALMs, and that ALMs in Stratix V have 2 LUTs and 4 FFs. But the logic utilization given by A-B+C yields a measure of how many ALMs are utilized based on LUT+FF utilization, those that use only LUT and FF but can be densely packed, and then those that cannot be packed (https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/solutions/rd05172012_146.html). For the same project, the area.rpt file contains
Total: LEs = 163549 FFs = 328203 RAMs = 1704 DSPs = 70
Global_resources: LEs = 28908 FFs = 48290 RAMs = 104 DSPs = 0
Const_resources: LEs = 0 FFs = 0 RAMs = 0 DSPs = 0
LSU_resources: LEs = 49441 FFs = 152985 RAMs = 987 DSPs = 0
FP_resources: LEs = 0 FFs = 0 RAMs = 0 DSPs = 0
Local_mem_resources: LEs = 0 FFs = 0 RAMs = 0 DSPs = 0
Reg_State_resources: LEs = 9471 FFs = 22876 RAMs = 84 DSPs = 0
RAM_State_resources: LEs = 4599 FFs = 3717 RAMs = 147 DSPs = 0
MrgBr_State_resources: LEs = 0 FFs = 1568 RAMs = 0 DSPs = 0
Other_State_resources: LEs = 490 FFs = 490 RAMs = 0 DSPs = 0
Other_resources: LEs = 32032 FFs = 47257 RAMs = 98 DSPs = 70
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LEs: 47.378 %
FFs: 47.5381 %
RAMs: 84.6077 %
DSPs: 4.40252 %
Util: 92.7939 %
Based on that I get a total number of LEs in my device of (260,686/43.3508%) = 601,340 LEs. So there are 601340 LEs. Does this mean my design is using 1 LUT, 2 LUTs? What about that 1.25LE = 1ALUT metric, reportedly, http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/81312/what-are-alms-les-and-aluts. But if I apply the same math to FFs I get (559,606/44.2226%) = 1,265,429. But I only have 690,000 Registers on the Stratix V. Are registers not FFs? How do I find out the number of ALUTs the FPGA has? Bottomline is, I want LUTs and FFs. Can I have it? Either I can convert LEs to LUTs, or I can convert ALUTs to LUTs, no? In the end, I'm not likely to be comparing LUTs utilization of Altera vs. Xilinx. But if the metrics used are different, people then to focus on how the two cannot be compared, even if in the end you don't ever so slightly compare them. What am I missing here? Thanks for you kind help.
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