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FRoth
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7 years ago

Recommended PC for Quartus Prime Pro compilations

What is currently the recommended PC system for fastest compilations (for Arria 10's)? We are aware of memory recommendations, but what about the relative importance of other parameters: number of ...
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FRoth
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7 years ago

Thank you for all the answers.

In the end, we went with Intel i9 7980XE with 64 GB of quad channel memory and the overall CPU utilization looks quite good (in the middle of Fitter place stage with Quartus Prime Pro 18.1):

The processor has 18 cores and they do not look bored :) The interleaving of busy and idle cores might be caused by each physical core being virtualized as two logical ones, so when Quartus throws the same code thread to all available cores, the two logical cores forming one physical compete for the same physical resources(?)