[sdiy] FPGA digital audio

[Magnus Danielson]

From: patchell <patchell at silcom.com>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] FPGA digital audio
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 11:01:33 -0800

>     Faster computers help as well.  I had one design that took 2 hours to
> route.  I needed to add a little bit to it, and then it two about 8 hours to
> route.  I went from an old Pentium I 90 to a Pentium III 750 (or something like
> that), and the routing time went down to 5 minutes....

Also, the OS does it's part. At work we are forced to run the Xilinx
tools in Linux under Wine since when you run them under Windows they
are tooooooo sssssssllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww!

The reason is memory management routines.

When will Xilinx learn?

Cheers,
Magnus