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15 years ago

New machine for compiling designs

I'm about to buy a new box to act as my new build machine for Quartus II. I have the option of choosing 1 of the following 2 options: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8500 with VT (3.16GHz, 6M, 133...
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15 years ago

Nota Bene : Quartus II Web Edition uses only one core. So no interest to multiple core in this case.

Hyper threading could improve performance.

CPU with high cache will help a lot.

RAM : huge size, prefer QDR (faster than DDR)...

I suggest you to see requirements by quartus for targeted fpga : they are different for each FPGA size and class. see literature page on www.altera.com

For high FPGA, I think that you must have 64bits hardware and operating system.

Regards.