ISE: Parallel Processing

The Solaris version of par (Xilinx place and route tool) can do multiple iterations on multiple hosts (using the -m option to par).

I do this all the time. I have a server running Solaris or Linux where I have scripts running through synthesis, map/fit, place & route, static timing analysis, generating programming files, and even upload the new fpga image to the device under test in the lab.

Petter

Hey, the Linux versionhas that too. I can use that to make an extra process on the local machine in order to put a dual processor to use?

I'm glad to hear that this is supported in the Linux version. Unfortunately I haven't received mine yet.

The trick (at least on the Solaris version) is to write the same host name twice (or whatever number of procesesses you want to run) in the host file you pass to PaR, but with a different combination of upper and lower case letters:

zener zeneR

will then create two processes on the host zener.

Petter

Interesting. I didn't think this worked yet. It's pretty easy to do this with scripts, so we did not schedule the feature for 6.1i. Let us know how you got it to work.

Steve