Memory man or similar

[Hugo Haesaert]

Hi Gene and List !

I've been checking the Altera site lately and they have an evaluation 
(limited) version of Max+Plus II usable for six months for free .  You 
need to register etc ... Somewhere on their site i found a price of 
usd995 for the _base_ full version in a press release with url :

http://www.altera.com/html/new/pressrel/pr_hdlfree.html

this seems like the bottom line, and so, not very affordable :-((((
Most, if not all, of these development systems (Xilinx, Lattice for 
sure) are not priced any lower if not much higher .  Developing with 
the latest ic's (read biggest, best, most interesting, promising, 
etc...) is out for the DIYer 8-(((((

That usd1000 is apparently used a lot for dev systems, so i wonder if 
it really reflects the cost of putting it out ?  I thought, naively 
perhaps ;) that these companies were in it to sell ic's .  So ?

Won't help a lot, i'm afraid .

But keep em oscillating :)

Hugo
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> From:          "Stopp,Gene" <gene.stopp at telematics.com>
> To:            "'synth-diy mail list'" <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
> Subject:       Re: Memory man or similar
> Date:          Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:25:00 -0500

> Also I am curious what the current investment cost is for an Altera
> development system. I used this at my old job and it was quite powerful
> - draw the schematic and program it into the chip.
> I think we use it where I'm currently at - unfortunately I'm not in
> hardware development this time around, but I can probably find out how
> much a setup is.
>