EDK11 under 64-bit OS

MM

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Nov 20, 2009, 4:09:04 PM11/20/09

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ISE/EDK11 has been crashing on me lately relentlessly complaining about the
lack of memory and just for no reason. I am considering moving to a 64-bit
OS just to eliminate the memory issue although I believe the root of the
problem is in the tools. Anyways, I was just wondering if the latest EDK is
indeed fully supported under 64-bit Linux as shown here
http://www.xilinx.com/ise/ossupport/index.htm?

Thanks,
/Mikhail

MM

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Nov 20, 2009, 4:21:53 PM11/20/09

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On the same note, I would appreciate an advice on what kind of CPU makes the
most sense for today's and future Xilinx tools running under 64-bit Linux.
Should I get a quad core or dual core? And if someone wants to give me a
very specific advice it has to be Dell :)

Thanks,
/Mikhail

austin

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Nov 20, 2009, 4:30:33 PM11/20/09

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M,

I use EDK on a 64b RHEL system...and it doesn't crash (for me).

Austin

Nobby Anderson

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Nov 20, 2009, 6:39:37 PM11/20/09

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I use 11.3 on Fedora 10 64 bit and it's OK for me. Oh, except I can't get
the SDK to load, something to do with missing libraries for which I've
followed all the advice I can find but can't get to work. Don't use it
though, so don't care.

Nobby

Matthieu Michon

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Nov 23, 2009, 4:13:28 AM11/23/09

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Hi

My company replaced my previous workstation last month with a Dell Precision T1500 (P55/Core-i7 architecture). Works great and the price difference with the T3500 series (X58/Xeon-35XX) allowed my to order a secondary display.

One of my co-workers noticed a two-fold decrease in compiling time --on a large V5 SX50T design-- with a Precision T3500 (Xeon W3520 @2.66 GHz) over a Precision T3400 (Core-2 Duo E6300 @1.86 Ghz).

With a dual-core Xeon 3500 series you will lose 4 MB of L3 cache memory, therefore I would suggest you to go with a quad-core Xeon 3520 series (Precision T3500) or with a Core-i7 (Precision T1500).

Hope this helps.
--
Matthieu Michon <preno...@gmail.com>

MM

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Nov 23, 2009, 10:27:35 AM11/23/09

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Hi Matthieu,

Which OS are you running? Can you see the usage for all of the 4 cores when
you run MAP and/or PAR?

Thanks,
/Mikhail

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Andy Botterill

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Nov 23, 2009, 10:58:51 AM11/23/09

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MM wrote:
> Hi Matthieu,
>
> Which OS are you running? Can you see the usage for all of the 4 cores when
> you run MAP and/or PAR?

I don't use EDK but I do use webpack 10.1.02. During map and par I can
see it using two processors. I have a quad core system. Using fedora 8
and fedora 11.

The following commands use the 2 processors :-xst, map, par, trce,
netgen. Andy
>
> Thanks,
> /Mikhail
>
>

MM

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Nov 23, 2009, 11:29:32 AM11/23/09

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"Andy Botterill" <an...@plymouth2.demon.co.uk> wrote in

>
> I don't use EDK but I do use webpack 10.1.02. During map and par I can see
> it using two processors. I have a quad core system. Using fedora 8 and
> fedora 11.
>
> The following commands use the 2 processors :-xst, map, par, trce, netgen.
> Andy

Thanks Andy. This is interesting. It seems to say that somehow OS(?)
combines cores in pairs so that a 4 core system really looks as a 2 core
system of which Xilinx uses only half...

/Mikhail

Maik H.

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Nov 23, 2009, 12:19:45 PM11/23/09

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I use the EDK on a 64bit Ubuntu 9.10 and it works fine, no crashes yet...

Maik