What's the state-of-the-art PC for fast LV FPGA compile?
My life becomes short, when I have to wait 2 hours to compile a 90% usage 5640R VI on my Dell Dimension 2.8GHz PC. I toggled the hyper-threading on and off, it does not change too much.
The Xilinx tools do not make use of multiple processors so having hyperthreading or multiprocessor systems will not help compile faster. Although it will allow you to work on other things using the available processor while the compilation of the FPGA consumes the other processor. The best thing to have for your system is a lot of RAM. According to Xilinx you should have between 1-2 GB for the FPGA device in the PCI-5640R.
