Research Article

Multi-Softcore Architecture on FPGA

Table 4

NIOS II/e-based multicore SoC implementation results on FPGA.

Number Logic utilization Memory use Max. frequency
PEs ALUTs Registers % Progr. mem. size/core Data mem. size/core Total bits MHz

2 3 905 2 086 <1 8 KB 3 KB 268 544 (<1%) 420
4 6 650 3 353 1 8 KB 3 KB 444 544 (<1%) 412
8 10 180 4 931 2 8 KB 3 KB 796 544 (1%) 382
16 18 978 9 069 4 12 KB 2 KB 1 884 544 (3%) 337
32 35 700 17 009 8 12 KB 1 KB 3 420 544 (6%) 328