Timers block - Part three
In the first part of this tutorial , we commented about the implementation of a single timer. The second part presented the implementation of a register based timers block, In this (third) part of the tutorial we will see a different way to implement the timers block. The timers block is a rather thirsty animal, let's see how many resources it needs for several configurations: Quantity of LUT Quantity of FF Single 32 bit timer 43 33 16 x 32 bit timers block 704 528 32 x 32 bit timers block 1,408 1,056 32 x 64 bit timers block 2,848 2,080 These numbers can be obtained by changing the DATA_W and TIMERS parameters on the VHDL package file and running synthesis for each configuration. After synthesis, in Vivado, we can get the number of used resources by taking a look at "Report utilization...
