Parallelise the FPGA Compiler

[Thoric]

I don't know if this idea belongs in the "LabVIEW" Ideas Exchange necessarily, but this idea is something that would really make a big difference to my LabVIEW development, so I offer it anyway: "Parallelise the FPGA Compiler to take advantage of modern multi-core computing power".

The FPGA compiler takes approximately four hours to compile my large FPGA VIs, which makes for long and tiresome debugging processes. It's clear that the compiler uses only one core of my CPU when compiling. If the compiler could be written to take advantage of the many cores of today's multi-core computers, it could potentially reduce my compilation times to an eighth! (Where I work we have an eight-core number crunching server ideal for just this task, and I'm sure we'll get even greater core counts in the near future - thinking GPU here).

I know the compiler is probably the intellectual property and responsibility of Xilinx Corp, and not National Instruments, but I expect NI can give them a big push if we all asked nicely for it!

Thoric

[Thoric]

Damn. Just seen that there's an "FPGA Ideas Exchange" and an identical suggestion in there already: muti-core compiling

Now why didn't that show when i searched for "FPGA Compile"????

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-FPGA-Idea-Exchange/Multi-core-Compiling/idi-p/1085808Mutli-Core Compiling