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Xilinx ML501 availability

Hi

with Virtex-4 I did a bad decision, namly I ordered the first board announced as available what was the Avnet-LX25 board. Avnet shipment delayed so much that at the time board was actually delivered other boards with better value for money had been available for some time already. I dont wanna make the same bad choice again by ordering the first available Virtex-5 board. But the information about real availability isnt much better then it was at the times Virtex-4 did come to the real world customers.

1) Xilinx online shop says that V5-AFX boards will become available June 2006. June 2006 is way past. 2) Xilinx eval board matrix document for Q2 2006 has a picture of ML501. We are now living mid Q3 2006.

Is that all the info about Virtex-5 board availability? My guess is that this time the best board (best price-performance) and first board available will be from Xilinx, so I will not go running to buy some 3rd party board before ML501 availability is known - but WHEN !?

Antti

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Antti
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But the Avnet-LX25 is not that bad. It was late, but it is nice ...

Just remember, how much later the spartan 3e board came. So, I would expect the same for a ml501 :(

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emu

We have hundreds of these going through production builds right now and they will be available for sale in September.

Ed McGettigan

-- Xilinx Inc.

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Ed McGettigan

Thanks for update!

looks like nice board :)

Antti

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Antti Lukats

Thanks Ed.

Can you say if these are "Cinderella boards", that is, if the design software magically stops working after some period or will the Virtex-5 XC5VLX50 be supported by the ISE WebPACK before that happens?

Thanks, Tommy

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Tommy Thorn

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