mariaR
Advanced Member level 4
gezzas525 said:Of coarse then I hear SOLARIS 10 is on the way for Opteron 64-bit, as far as EDA support, is it better to port SOLARIS (SPARC) EDA tools to SOLARIS (Opteron 64) or SOLARIS (SPARC) EDA tools to Linux(x86).
KLEOS
You are confused, my friend! Currently most EDA software supported on 3 Platform , HP-UX, Linux and Solaris. Solaris here means a Sun machine using Solaris OS, it doesn't mean a AMD or Intell CPU using Solaris OS. It won't work. Remember different CPU and different OS have different machine language which require different compiler. The code written for a specific CPU architecture and a specific OSdoesn't alway work perfectly with other similiar family. Follow the instruction from release note. otherwise you will get in trouble later. I remember when my company first bought a Sun Blade, the Hspice program even don't work perfect on it. It work perfectly on Ultra Sparc 10 and Ultra Sparc 60.