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15 years ago

Quartus II bug and fix for dynamic frequency scaling multicore CPUs

At least in the UNIX versions of Quartus II 10.1, whenever you start any tool it sources quartus/adm/qenv.sh to setup a sane environment for the tool. In that script, there is a check for the CPU fr...
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15 years ago

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i guess my Intel Core2 must not do frequency scaling?

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It depends on your kernel configuration, and if the scaling is identical on every core, you won't notice the problem. In my case, it's on a quad core AMD under Ubuntu, which scales every core independently.