[email protected]d wrote:

>What kind of cpu resources does fpga "compilation" (Analyse, Synthesis, etc..)
>use on a cpu..?
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>Integer/Branch/Bitshifting..?
>Floating point..?
>Will a pipeline cpu greatly improve speed..?
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I'm sure there's no floating point, except to report % usages at the end.
Pipelining always helps, but anything newer than a 286 has at least some
level of pipelining. Plenty of main memory and cache will help greatly.
Swapping to disk will kill this type of large database sorting task.

Jon