Were do I need to turn to purchase lead free Xilinx parts? Insight in Germany tells me that there are no XC2Sxx-PQG208 parts and no XC3Sxx-FTG256 parts listed.
The problem is the following:
formatting link
In the EU no electronic equipment containing lead may be sold by july
2006. My most important product has very low volume and therefore a single charge of products is in stock for more than a year. With manufacturer lead times of 16 week (take from a recent distributor quote) I will need to start ordering lead free parts this summer. It makes me a little nervous that the distri never heard about the Xilinx -G packages. It doesn't help, that the lead free parts are not listed in the datasheets.
What are your experience? Did anybody order lead free Xilinx FPGAs yet? What about other manufacturers?
Kolja Sulimma
BTW: Networking equipment is excempt from the directive so that there will still be millions of leaded FPGAs be sold in europe.