There is a misconception.
maybe on your part.
I also frequently, very frequently find myself with open Xilinx ISE, ModelSim, iMpact, PowerPCB, Internet Explorer, Acrobat with several documents, maybe some Word and/or Excel, and Outlook. But I rarely RUN them simultaneously.
i don't know about you but my smallest fpga design takes nearly 4 hours in ise. i certainly can't afford to wait for it to finish to look-at my next client's item with ncverilog or matlab. in the mean time, the background indexer is working on the new pdfs i downloaded, outlook is fetching & filtering mail, ... you get the idea.
even for a non-techy user, anti-virus, email, audio player& indexers are a very good reason for multi-core, multi-threaded environments.
Then I have to run back-annotated simulations, to make sure that my timing didn't fall apart
there is certainly something wrong the way you're doing things. |
