Xilinx XC3S50

13 discussions on ElectronDepot about the Xilinx XC3S50: what owners asked, what went wrong, and what fixed it.

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Pissed off with Xilinx - Spartan 3

14 week lead time for samples for the XC3S200. How can you prototype with that?It makes worry even more when it comes to manufacture where I might need quantity.

Spartan3 availability

There seems to be some confusion about Spartan3 availability. According to a Xilinx press release in October, several Spartan3 chips should be in production. However, Insight Memec, the UK distributor, has just told me that they haven't any...

Availability of Spartan3

Does anyone know if there is a specific problem leading to long leadtimes for the Spartan3. Someone from one of the major distribitors saidthere was. Also, Xilinx no longer sells the Spartan3 on the website,whereas they used to do so.An...

divide by 2^n, n=21..37 ==> 3 Virtex Slices !!

Hibelow is possible the most dense divide by 2^n ever implemented on any FPGA:divide by 2^37 takes only 3 Virtex Slices! (4 slices on spartan-3)Antti---- -- Divide by 2^n, n=21..37, code=0000 n=37, code=1111 n=21-- Theory of operation:--...

lowest-cost FPGA

Hi there,Could anybody please let me know what is the approximate price of thelowest-cost FPGA or CPLD with about 20K Lggic Cells, or even less? Thequantum will be around 10K per year. We will start a very simpleapplication, and I hope I...

Spartan-3 non-ES availability, and misleading pricing info

There's an announcement on the Xilinx web site that the XC3S50, XC3S200,XC3S400, and XC3S1000 are now shipping. Is that the "real" XC3S50,or the XC3S50J? For my application, I need the BlockRAMs and 3.3V tolerantI/O, so the XC3S50J won't...

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