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Honored ContributorMore cores will help and 16.x tools effectively use as many cores as you can offer. Although, the synthesis, place and route will fall back sometimes to a single process, the most of the time I see 4 cores utilized. There is also setting in Quartus that you can add to top.qsf in your board support directory typically: <BSP>/<board_name>/hardware/<board_variant>/top.qsf or similar path. If you have quad core proccessor put 4. In you have i7 or its Xeon cousin put 8.
Memory is the whole different matter. You can mitigate the memory issue by compiling smaller number of work items, but if you ready to deploy the whole A10 chip filled up - yes you need 64GB. Look at performance meter. If you start using swap (linux) or pagefile (win) - you are toasted. Restart with single compile or more memory.
