For large and medium designs, the time it takes to calculate diagnostics can now be reduced significantly by calculating fault isolation for multiple detection tests at the same time. Using two new diagnostic status dialogs, you can specify the number of processing threads to be used when calculating isolation. The number of simultaneous threads allowed is, of course, limited by the number of physical (“core”) and virtual processors that are available on your machine—generally speaking, the more powerful your machine, the more threads you can run at once.

The diagnostics status dialog may now be selected among three different options:

• Standard – the original classic eXpress diagnostic study status dialog performed in a single thread.
• Advanced – for multi-core processing of up to a maximum of 10 threads.
• Power – for multi-core processing of up to a maximum of 64 threads.