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