Here's a statement that would have been unimaginable in previous years: Ubuntu has arrived in the Windows Store. As promised back in May, you can now download a flavor of the popular Linux distribution to run inside Windows 10. It won't compare to a conventional Ubuntu installation, as it's sandboxed (it has limited interaction with Windows) and is focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH. However, it also makes running a form of Linux relatively trivial. You don't have to dual boot, install a virtual machine or otherwise jump through any hoops beyond a download and ticking a checkbox.
Source: Engadget
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 12 2017, @12:16AM (1 child)
In the last 3 years, they moved a lot of the single-threaded stuff to 2 and 4 threads (Syn, Route), so not having at least 4 cores is a costly savings.
Having at least HT to accommodate the parts where they can spawn 8 threads will save time (reports). But if a company is paying engineers, there is no reason to skimp on $900 for a 8/16 chip+mobo (1500ish for a headless machine) to give each thread its own core. I suspect future Vivado versions will keep trying to add more threads as chips get bigger but clocks don't get faster.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 12 2017, @02:29AM
So even they can make progress ;) Is the UI still crap and crashy? such that makefiles makes the day?
Is there some kind of powerful shared server pool for doing the synthesis or is everyone doing that on their own workstation?
Any preferences on DRAM types or is it just the more Gbit/s the better? I noticed that anything above DDR2 have significant latency times for random access when looking at the communication setup.
What's a Vivado version?