A couple of years ago we've done some Spartan II development with Xilinx ISE tools (V5.2.03i). Now we want to do a design with a Spartan III but our tools are out of date or have expired. We've tried the Webpack 8.1i on a
3GHz Prescott with 1GB of RAM and found it very slow. Hence my question:What is a good system setup for reasonable comfortable Spartan III development? What kind of PC do we need and which tools?
We don't want to spend too much on tools since we do FPGA only occasionally, but if our engineer is spending most of his time waiting for his tools to finish a job we may be better of spending a bit more.
Thanks,
--DF