My name is Sven Andersson and I
work as a consultant in embedded
system design, implemented in ASIC
and FPGA.
In my spare time I write this blog
and I hope it will inspire others to
learn more about this fantastic field.
I live in Stockholm Sweden and work
for Realtime Embedded AB.
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How fast is my MacBook? Let's compare it to some other computers. Here are the contanders.
Model
Processor
Speed
Memory
Operating_System
Compaq EVO N610c
Pentium 4-M
1.8 GHz
512 MB
RedHat Rel 3.0
SUN SunBlade 1500
Ultra SPARC IIIi
1.5 GHz
1 GB
Solaris 10
HP Proliant DL145
AMD Opteron 200
2.6 GHz
32 GB
RedHat Rel 3.0
Apple MacBook I
Intel Duo Core
2.0 GHz
1 GB Note 1.
Mac OS X 10.47 Ubuntu 6.06
Apple MacBook II
Intel Duo 2 Core
2.0 GHz
1 GB Note 1.
Mac OS X 10.48 Ubuntu 6.10
Note 1. On the MacBook all files are stored on the local disk. All the others have the files stored on an external file server.
The benchmark consists of two tasks. The first task uses ncvlog to compile a Xilinx macro library including 3100 Verilog files. The second task runs a verilog simulation using ncsim. Here are the results (in seconds) :