2 Nov
2001
2 Nov
'01
2:44 p.m.
Nowadays,
you're
required to use a 1000+ pin BGA package to get the quantity of logic
that
you'd
> like in a 44-pin PLCC. If you're really lucky with the fit, the device
will
If you're a really lousy logic designer you can create crap anywhere, no
need to go the FPGA route.
[the price comments were still more crap]
allow you to use 10% of the gate count the
marketing guys said you're
paying
> for. Don't forget the $500 minimum order per line item.
I suspect you need
all the 1000+ pins since only 50% of the pins are usable -- the power,
ground and configuration pins take up a lot of space.
If you use something like the XV1000 (1 MILLION equivalent gates, then yes
the chip will cost you $1700 and you can design in a complete PDP-11/70,
GT-44 subsystem, RL/RK/RX controllers, SDRAM memory controller, front panel
for blinken lights, full floating point, CIS and EIS instruction sets and a
programmable microstore with about half the damn chip left over.
Sheesh, don't dis 'em if you don't know anything about them.
--Chuck