First Steps in Porting the LFRic Weather and Climate Model to the FPGAs of the EuroExa Architecture

Table 2

Number of logic elements used by the matrix-vector code synthesised with a 2 ns clock period, compared with the total number of elements available on the ZU9 FPGA.

Logic element	BRAM_18K	DSP48E	FF	LUT
Matrix-vector block	8	10	23199	7203
Available	1824	2520	548160	274080
Percentage used	0.44	0.4	4.23	2.63