Altera MAX2

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Lattice Announces EOL for XP and EC/P Product Lines

This is likely not a big deal to most, but it hurts me a lot. I have one product in production and it uses an XP device. They are only giving until November to get your last time buy orders in. I think Lattice is doing a disservice to...

July 20th Altera Net Seminar: Stratix II Logic Density

On Wednesday, July 20th @ 11 AM PST, two of my colleagues (Alex Grbic and Paul Ekas) will be giving a net seminar comparing Stratix II and Virtex-4 logic densities. They will describe the logic architectures of these two families, compare...

CoolRunner XPLA3 getting axed?

Is the coolrunner XPLA3 getting axed? I noticed that it is no longer a link on the xilinx font page. The online store does not list them on the front page(only Cool runner II and the XC9500 Series). Its also slim pickens' when you do...

DDR3 speed, Altera vs Xilinx

I get the impression that Altera is in the lead when it comes to speed on DDR[3] interfaces. Can anyone confirm/deny this?Altera claims to be able to clock a 64/72bit wide DDR3 at 533Mhz on the StratixIII: Xilinx, the fastest reference...

Need some help with some technical claims...

I need some help with something. Someone made some technical claims that Iam questioning are correct or not ;-), and would like to see what you guysthink about these claims:#1> Programming FPGAs doesn't actually change or rewire those...

SiliconBlue enters the FPGA fray

Talk of devices from 1,792 to 15,260 logic blocks, and currentsa little under Altera'a MAX IIZ (on a Logic Block basis). Not stellar Static ICc values, but reasonable - considering theyhave to fight 65-nm process leakages. So the logic...

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