Estimating Performance

The generation of FPGA programming files is the step in the SDAccel™ development environment with the longest execution time. It is also the step in which the execution time is most affected by the target hardware device and the number of compute units placed on the FPGA fabric. Therefore, it is essential for the application programmer to have a quicker way to understand the performance of the application before running it on the target device so they can spend more time iterating and optimizng their applications instead of waiting for the FPGA programming file to be generated.