Yes, 3E are more cost effective, but the cheapest Virtex4 is around $100.
I've got a new design for work using a V4 and a Spartan-3AN. That 3AN will
probably end up in a music product if I have time. (which we all never seem
to have enough)
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:
synth1@...]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 1:30 PM
To:
tony@...; 'MOTM litserv'
Subject: Re: [motm] Tony K, movie star
> That's one of the devices I use for my day job. Big FPGAs are a LOT of
fun.
> Unfortunately they are still too pricy for this industry. Soon though...
>
Well, err....the Spartan 3E will be used on several MOTM modules :)
Virtex is still $$$ (but you get PowerPCs and 48-bit DSP cores, too)
Paul S.