What specification PC is recommended for FPGA compiler?

[Lucy]

I have just bought a cRIO system, and discovered that compiling the FPGA code takes lots of time of my laptop. I'm going to by another workstation to do the compiling. What features are important to get the best compiling time - processor speed, memory, disk access or what ?

[Christian_L]

Assuming a decent systems, i.e. none of these three factor is really bad, the factor that has the most effect on improving compile time is the amount of memory. If you don't have enough memory then disk access speed will also play a factor.

Doubling your memory will have a much bigger effect than doubling your processor speed. Of course at some point you may have so much memory that getting more won't help. A typical system to efficiently compile LV FPGA code should have a 2-3 GHz processor with 512-1024 MB of RAM. Less than 512 MB of RAM will seriously slow down the compile process.