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Honored ContributorAdvice on buying a new PC (and O/S) primarily to run Quartus and Modelsim - thanks!
Time to update my 7-year old PC as it, and Centos 5.6, are really old :-). My budget is several hundred $, and I'm planning to get a white-box PC and install Centos 7 on it. The machine will b...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- What wersion of Quartus are you using? Is it Lite, Standart or PRO? --- Quote End --- For this test I used Xilinx Vivado 2017.1, not Quartus. But Quartus (Pro/Standard) with other tests behaves very likeliy like Xilinx. As I see, synthesis and report/timing analysis can use multicore. While fitting/placement mostly one thread/core is used. Its sad, but its true. My rule of thumb for FPGA development is "think, simulate, think, pause, think, simulate, think while synthesis" ;-)
