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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Gigabyte i-RAM

Though I would pass on a suggestion that has saved my loads of time. There is a add-on Gigibyte i-ram that is basically a 4G SATA drive made out of DDR2 RAM and its fast. http://tw.giga-byte...
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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

I've two questions.

1) In the product description there is only DDR memory mentioned (i-RAM and i-RAM Box). Do you have an improved version? Or just a "2" too much? :)

If correct, where can I buy the DDR2 versions?

2) The compile time decreases by 90% (90 minutes to 9 minutes). Do you have this behaviour in every project you tested or is this statement just the best case? What is the average? I mean even half compile time will save a lot.

In my upcoming project I'll use a Stratix4 and the compile times will increase I guess. So i-RAM (with 4GB) could save a lot for only 200€ (110€ i-RAM + 90€ 4GB DDR RAM).

I've never noticed that Quartus uses the HDD during compilation excessively - otherwise the gain of i-RAM wouldn't be such high.