Hi, I have been running my designs on ISE 9.2i for a virtex-5 LX110t FPGA. The time taken by the tool to complete a full synthesis and implementation is a little over 3 hours on a Core2 Quad CPU running at
2.4 GHz with 2GB of RAM and Windows XP Pro 32-bit edition. I have tried using ISE 10.1 and have observed that the time taken to run the same design is less than 2 hrs. I have read the threads on Xilinx about using more memory, I will be upgrading my memory to 3 GB or more. I would like to get some recommendations for a system configuration in terms of the best suitable processor, memory and any other useful configuration to bring down the synthesis-map-par run- time. The other discussion threads that I went through were either old or did not point to an optimal configuration. Your inputs will be helpful and is highly appreciated.Thanks!