Re: [oc] LVD and fpga's

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan@optushome.com.au>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:23:08PM +0100, Lars Segerlund wrote:
> 
>  I have been looking at them, but I can't sythezise to them right now 

not in the free stuff. A pain - that.
Wait till you need the high speed IO or powerPC  which seems
 to  requires modelsim SE or verilogXL for encryption reasons.


> :-(  .... also the altera part are not yet available.

GX is not shipping yet, but the base series should be available. 
Doesn't it do LVDS?  Mercury even I thought did.

Small parts in these series are not totally out of it pricewise,
(well - compared to most aything else in smallish qty that is)
john


> 
>  I would like to test it with smaller parts first, which I understand 
> :-) ... ( limited bandwidth .. ), and to work out the best solution 
> available.
> 
>  I will have a second look at virtex though, thanks.
> 
>  / Lars Segerlund.
> 
> John Sheahan wrote:
> >The newer virtex parts from Xilinx, and Altera's stratix
> >devices all support lvds transceivers.
> >
> >why not just use them?
> >john
> >
> 
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