faster fpga compile with use of ramdisk

[JFTICH]

I have read the other posts in the forums regarding faster FPGA compiles...

It sounds like the Xilinx tool only uses 1 core processor. (I guess it will be great when they can use 2, 4, or 8+++).

I pumped my ram up to 3GB as well as a RAMDISK from gigabyte. Link to amazon's site:

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GC-RAMDISK-i-RAM-Hard-Drive/dp/B000EPM9NC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=e... 

So in a machine with 1GB of ram and a 2.4GHz processor, my compile time is about 110 minutes.

Pump that up to 3GB of ram and it goes down to 70 minutes.

Throw in the RAMDISK and move the temp file locations for the xilinx server and client to the RAMDISK drive and that compile time goes down to 50-55 minutes.