Altera PowerPlay Early Power Estimator - Manual (Page 9)

Altera Corporation UG-FPGAPWRCAL-2.0 2–1
October 2005 Preliminary
2. Setting Up PowerPlay Early
Power Estimator for Stratix,
Stratix GX & Cyclone FPGAs
System
Requirements The PowerPlay early power estimator requires:
■ Windows NT/2000/XP operating system
■ Microsoft Excel 2002 or higher
■ Quartus II software 5.0 or higher
Download &
Install the
PowerPlay Early
Power Estimator The PowerPlay early power estimator for Stratix ® , Stratix GX, or
Cyclone ™ devices are available from the Altera web site
(www.altera.com). After reading the terms and conditions, click the
I Agree
button, to download the Microsoft Excel file to your hard drive.
1 By default, the Microsoft Excel 2002 macro security level is set to
High
. When the macro security level is set to High, macros are
automatically disabled. To change the macro security level in
Microsoft Excel 2002, choose Options (Tools menu). On the
Security
tab of the Options window, click Macro Security. On
the Security Level tab of the Security dialog box, chose
Medium
. When the macro security level is set to Medium, a
pop-up window asks you whether to enable macros or disable
macros each time you open a spreadsheet that contains macros.
After changing the macro security level, you must close the
spreadsheet and re-open it in order to use the macros.
Entering
Information into
the PowerPlay
Early Power
Estimator You can either manually enter power information into the PowerPlay
early power estimator or load a power estimation file generated by the
Quartus II software 5.0 or higher. You can also clear all the values
currently in the PowerPlay early power estimator.
Clearing All Values
You can reset all of the user entered values in the PowerPlay early power
estimator by clicking Reset All Values.
1
To use the Reset All Values feature, enable macros for the
spreadsheet. If you did not enabled macros for the spreadsheet,
you need to reset all user-entered values manually.