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13 years ago

Improve Build Time on dual processor machine

I have a dual CPU (Xeon E5-2403 @ 1.80GHz, 10M Cache) machine with 16GB of DDR3 Memory (1067 MHz) dedicated to each CPU. Each CPU has 4 cores. Using Quartus 11.1 sp2. When I run Quartus with th...
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13 years ago

Yes, a faster core will outperform multiple ones if You don't use design partitions. Enable and create partitions for Your modules, so Quartus will parallelize synthesis of them.