Acceleration

I can't speak specifically about this product but I do use RAID arrays and previously RAMDISKs to improve performance and they do work. Looking at this product I would think there is a good chance that it would help. Let me know the results if you try it.

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Hi Martin,

A faster storage device is only useful if you are disk I/O limited. There should not be a significant amount of time spent on disk access (in Quartus, at least) provided that you have sufficient physical memory for the design being compiled. If your computer is thrashing (swapping to disk frequently), then the easiest solution is more RAM. If it isn't thrashing, then I'm afraid you'll be limited by CPU speed.

- Paul

Quartus,

Right. I knew that to be the case. We are using 2 gigs of RAM on the compile machines, which seems to be enough to avoid any significant disk I/O. I was hoping that there would be a little gem of a trick somewhere to take advantage of this sort of technology.

-Martin