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profiling and alt_tick?

Altera_Forum
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‎05-22-2006 03:56 AM
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What does the alt_tick really means?  

 

It doesn't seem like a real clock cycle of application to run. 

Does anybody knows how to measure clock cycles of running particular application? 

And what does alt_tick means? so how it relate to clock cycles?  

 

I got confused.  

 

THanks.
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Altera_Forum
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‎05-22-2006 12:23 PM
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alt_tick is mainly used for all the periodic activities of the HAL, in particular, the HAL alarm support uses alt_tick. 

 

use the performance counter to perform cycle-accurate measurements! 

 

bye 

 

Paolo
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