For the past week or so the Xilinx online store says that target availability (from the store) is April, but that it is available "now" from Avnet. But the link to the Avnet site brings up a page that says that it's not available for ordering.
Maybe someday...
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
Xilinx can safely say so, Avnet is good by taking orders now and shipping 6 months later. Avnet was the first to announce V4 evalboard availability so of course I placed order immediatly. When those 6 months elapsed, well at the time I finally got Avnet board I could have received some better board. But I had already order pending at Avnet, because of their advance announcement. Nice marketing politics. Works one time. You get pissed once, and you will avoid Avnet later if you have options. Sure after Avnet swallowed Memec there isnt many options to get Xilinx silicon and/or boards so you are stuck with Avnet one way or another (as long as you stick with Xilinx). Hm I kinda understand why it took so long for Avnet to get the approval in court to buy memec (because of the anti-monopoly laws).
Ok, ok maybe its all not so bad, maybe I am just releasing the monday morning steam, maybe all other have very good experiences with Avnet and have received the orders on time (not sooner not later), etc, etc.. if that is the case then sorry (to Avnet).
Well we might beat them out with Tarfessock1 after all then.
John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Soon to be Home of Tarfessock1. The PCMCIA Spartan-3E Development Board.
Can you share a bit of the specs? If it has an XC3S1600E and megabytes of external storage then I'm interested.
Tommy
Tommy
At the moment it is penciled in for the 500E part as it is most available and for the target market that we going for but it might be made available in a footprint that could accomodate the 1600E. However we are still playing with some concepts on this board that even for us are different. We do have some targets in mind but even for us it is a bit early to talk about these publically. Multiple devices are also in the envelope of what we are considering but that might be Tarfessock2. It's on the roadmap too but I have not put a date on it yet before anyone asks.
As always if you have a serious commercial application it is worth talking to us offline as to what we can do. We do a lot spin-off designs of the boards from our development board products ranging from simple connector changes to radical changes that are barely recognisable as the origonal board. Sometimes it goes the other way like MINI-CAN and it spins out from a customer requirement into a development board.
Anyway enough my commercial spin, Philip will be telling me off in his best Aussie voice, so offline if you want more data. Any of the Enterpoint's public email address can be used to contact me if marked for my attention.
John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of UAP. Enterpoint's University Access Program.
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