Does Xilinx ISE benefit from Multi CPU setups? Like offered by AMD Athlon64 X2, AMD Opteron, Intel Core2Duo etc..?
Also would AMD AM2 socket + 800MHz DDR2 be really benefitial compared to non DDR2 motherboards?
Curious on the linux version of ise.
A multi-core or multi-CPU setup isn't going to run ISE faster (AFAIK), but your computer will still be a lot more responsive while running CPU intensive tasks.
However ISE will run faster with CPUs featuring 4 MB L2 cache, such as th mid/high-end Intel Core2 Duo CPUs (if I recall correctly models E6320, E6420, E6600 and higher).
To give you a single data point, my MAP/PAR time reduced by about
20% when i went from a 2MB Core2Duo (E6400?) to 4MB (E6600) at the same clock speed (2.4GHz).BTW, going to the 2MB Core2Duo from my previous 3GHz P4 halved the time!
Cheers, Martin
-- martin.j.thompson@trw.com TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology http://www.conekt.net/electronics.html
Unfortunly the Intel Core2Duo seems to have both security & integrity problems:
When loading data from L1 cache it will occasionally have stale data.
Any tip on a AMD cpu that will perform?
It looks like it could occasionally get it's cache wrong. Very occasionally - "not been seen in commercial systems".
Not that is guaranteed errata-free :-)
Just get
1) a big cache 2) Low latency main memory... 3) ... and lots of itCheers, Martin
-- martin.j.thompson@trw.com TRW Conekt - Consultancy in Engineering, Knowledge and Technology http://www.conekt.net/electronics.html
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