Altera Stratix IV GT 100G - Manual (Page 51)

Chapter 6: Board Test System 6–29
The Power Monitor
October 2010 Altera Corporation Stratix IV GT 100G Development Kit User Guide
■ TX and RX performance bars—Show the percentage of maximum theoretical data
rate that the requested transactions are able to achieve.
■ MBps —Shows the number of megabytes of data analyzed per second for transmit
and receive.
The Power Monitor
The Power Monitor measures and reports current power information for the board. To
start the application, click Power Monitor in the Board Test System application.
1 You can also run the Power Monitor as a stand-alone application. PowerMonitor.exe
resides in the
<install dir>\kits\stratixIVGT_4sgt100g5_100g\examples\board_test_system
directory. On Windows, click Start > All Programs > Altera > Stratix IV GT 100G
Development Kit
<version> > Power Monitor to start the application.
The Power Monitor communicates with the MAX II device on the board through the
JTAG bus. A power monitor circuit attached to the MAX II device allows you to
measure the power that the Stratix IV GT FPGA device is consuming regardless of the
design currently running.
Figure 6–14 shows the Power Monitor.
Figure 6–14. The Power Monitor