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To: ted burton who wrote (35725)	4/14/2001 2:54:26 PM
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Hmmm... "The writer makes a huge issue out of the apparent disparity between the 54.7W thermal design power (TDP), and the 73.9W max power. Asserting that many, if not all, power hungry apps will blow away the TDP, & suffer a 50% performance loss! Doesn't anyone wonder why he doesn't offer any concrete examples of this truly nasty behavior? Answer... There are no nasty examples." Actually, there are probably many examples. The logic synthesis and place and route for the large FPGA’s, 1 million gate versions, is processor intensive. Based on the system performance this can take 1 hour to 8 hours. The systems I use are not much more then the processors and 1 Gbytes to 2 Gbytes of memory. To date the best performance that has been achieved is with Athlon based systems. A P4 system has not been used. Intel claims that the best use for the P4 is in data streaming applications. Is this classified as a Processor intensive application? If addition thought is given, there are range of applications that will hit the thermal performance wall on the P4. The thermal inertia of the silicon will almost guarantee that this is not at a microsecond time base. What ever rate this is occurring at, the performance will less then the rated frequency of the P4.

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