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 | | From: | Austin Lesea | | Subject: | Re: HardCopy costs- the hidden ones | | Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:37:50 -0800 |
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 | Ben,
Sorry to hear you are dealing with intermittent failures. They are the
worst kind.
Stratix-1 Hardcopy conversions are the ones that we are hearing about
(failing), so my comments are still valid. By the way, the guidelines
for conversion are all listed on their website, so there are no secrets
here as you also have stated (what I said is not 'news').
Of course listening to the FAEs, following all specifications,
guidelines, etc. is always a good thing.
They are certainly necessesary conditions, but are they sufficient?
And any mistake made is "hard" to fix....
EasyPath(tm) now has the ECO feature, which allows you to change any IO
standard, and any LUT contents, on your EasyPath qualified parts. This
turns out to be the most useful way to allow customers to have some of
the benefits of FPGAs, and still pay the reduced prices for a volume
component.
Since that is impossible with an ASIC (or any mask solution), we have no
competition at all in this regard.
Austin
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