29-11-2022, 01:14 PM
I'm no longer doing FPGA (field programmable gate array) designs so no longer need to keep up in the arms race between bigger devices and computer power. The journey from original VHDL code, via optimisation through to a placed and routed design is compute intensive. There are plenty of occasions when I had to let a job run over a long lunchtime, though I never quite got to needing it to run overnight.
My 7 year old main PC, mentioned a few posts ago, gave me a several fold improvement in compile times compared to its predecessor. I chose a compromise between cost and performance and reckon I made the right choice. It's still an entirely adequate machine for all everyday needs. The 16GB RAM and SSD (system disk) are a great help. Using a second SSD as the data disk would speed up jobs like zipping large file sets, dealing with big PDFs and other disk intensive jobs. It would not have helped with FPGA work which needs compute power and RAM.
My 7 year old main PC, mentioned a few posts ago, gave me a several fold improvement in compile times compared to its predecessor. I chose a compromise between cost and performance and reckon I made the right choice. It's still an entirely adequate machine for all everyday needs. The 16GB RAM and SSD (system disk) are a great help. Using a second SSD as the data disk would speed up jobs like zipping large file sets, dealing with big PDFs and other disk intensive jobs. It would not have helped with FPGA work which needs compute power and RAM.
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