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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:

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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.

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Kolja Sulimma
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Have a look here

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. This is public domain, I know more but I might have to shoot you if I told. Somebody from Xilinx may wish to elaborate the detail. Also push your disti a bit harder for detail, I would talk to a FAE rather than a sales person. Often a sales person only knows what is on their database. and if a part has not been ordered before then it might not be on the database, a catch 42 situation if ever there was one. The FAE may also be able to give you more detail under a NDA.

John Adair Enterpoint Ltd.

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John Adair

Hi Kolja, This will be of interest to you. The EU has apparently included a loop hole in the Lead free spec. Is your PCB < 0.1% lead/tin? cheers, Syms

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Symon

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