For those of us that does FPGA development. Any recommendations by experience on what kind of PC machines that execute the synthesis software fast?
My own experience is that L1-3 cache is higly critical, and fast memory bus with fast modules secondarily. I suspect DD3 might have a detrimental latency however as opposed to DDR2. Clock frequency seems less critical.
This has resulted in Intel CPUs come out favorable, and is also the reason why many AMD CPUs are a factor 2/3 as fast.
So any recommendation on hardware characteristics too look for?
