it seems that first references to the upcoming
Spartan family are in
the wild already

http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschristiansen

I assume the spartan-6 mentioned there is not a typo
(actually i am almost sure it isnt)

Antti

Antti <A...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
> the wild already

> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschristiansen

> I assume the spartan-6 mentioned there is not a typo
> (actually i am almost sure it isnt)

I neither find XILINX. spartan or fpga mentioned in that resume.

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"Uwe Bonnes" <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote in message 
news:glc2p3$er6$1...@lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de...
> Antti <A...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
>> the wild already
>
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschristiansen
>
>> I assume the spartan-6 mentioned there is not a typo
>> (actually i am almost sure it isnt)
>
> I neither find XILINX. spartan or fpga mentioned in that resume.
>

Look harder? Try CTRL-F ?

"o Control structure for the digital portion of the transceiver uses an 
instantiated microBlaze processor running in a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
o Component selection for the transceiver Common Public Radio Interface 
(CPRI)
§ Selected SFP+ module used for the optical interface, and a Spartan 6 FPGA 
running CPRI IP to handle the framing, mapping, and interleaving functions "

What happened to 4 & 5?
HTH., Syms. 

"Symon" <s...@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Uwe Bonnes" <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote in
message 
> news:glc2p3$er6$1...@lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de...
>> Antti <A...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
>>> the wild already
>>
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschristiansen
>>
>>> I assume the spartan-6 mentioned there is not a typo
>>> (actually i am almost sure it isnt)
>>
>> I neither find XILINX. spartan or fpga mentioned in that resume.
>>
>
> Look harder? Try CTRL-F ?
>
> "o Control structure for the digital portion of the transceiver uses an 
> instantiated microBlaze processor running in a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
> o Component selection for the transceiver Common Public Radio Interface 
> (CPRI)
> § Selected SFP+ module used for the optical interface, and a Spartan 6 
> FPGA running CPRI IP to handle the framing, mapping, and interleaving 
> functions "
>
> What happened to 4 & 5?


They could not be made to work with MPMC3 !


> HTH., Syms.
>

Michael Kellett 

On Jan 23, 12:25=A0pm, "MK"
<nos...@please.thanks> wrote:
> "Symon" <symon_bre...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:glc3ro$ken$1...@news.motzarella.org...
>
>
>
>
>
> > "Uwe Bonnes" <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote in
messag=
e
> >news:glc2p3$er6$1...@lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de...
> >> Antti <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
> >>> the wild already
>
> >>>http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschristiansen
>
> >>> I assume the spartan-6 mentioned there is not a typo
> >>> (actually i am almost sure it isnt)
>
> >> I neither find XILINX. spartan or fpga mentioned in that resume.
>
> > Look harder? Try CTRL-F ?
>
> > "o Control structure for the digital portion of the transceiver uses an
> > instantiated microBlaze processor running in a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
> > o Component selection for the transceiver Common Public Radio Interface
> > (CPRI)
> > =A7 Selected SFP+ module used for the optical interface, and a Spartan =
6
> > FPGA running CPRI IP to handle the framing, mapping, and interleaving
> > functions "
>
> > What happened to 4 & 5?
>
> They could not be made to work with MPMC3 !
>
> > HTH., Syms.
>
> Michael Kellett

ROTFL
sounds like a valid reason

Antti

On Jan 23, 11:24=A0am, Antti
<Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
> the wild already
>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericschristiansen
>
> I assume thespartan-6mentioned there is not a typo
> (actually i am almost sure it isnt)
>
> Antti

it seems that printed version of EE Times has already Virtex-6
Spartan-6
advertizments in it. can not verify as do not have yet a print copy

the target url should be

www.xilinx.com/6

so we should probably see there something pretty soon
as Xilinx can not delay the RP announcement any more
long when the print ads are alreayd running

Antti

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:17:42 -0800 (PST), Antti
<A...@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On Jan 23, 11:24 am, Antti <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
>> the wild already

>it seems that printed version of EE Times has already Virtex-6
>Spartan-6
>advertizments in it. can not verify as do not have yet a print copy
>
>the target url should be
>
>www.xilinx.com/6
>
>so we should probably see there something pretty soon
>as Xilinx can not delay the RP announcement any more
>long when the print ads are alreayd running

"Everything Changes February 2, 2009

Sign up and be the first to know more about Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6
FPGA Families."

Interesting, the Submit button appears broken, but if you edit
"testlinx.com" to "Xilinx.com", the registration may have worked.
Not quite ready to go live then...

- Brian

Antti wrote:

>> it seems that printed version of EE Times has already Virtex-6 
>> Spartan-6 advertizments in it. can not verify as do not have yet a 
>> print copy

Online version of EE Times has the advertizement. Page 20 of the pdf.

On Jan 29, 1:58=A0am, Brian Drummond
<brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:17:42 -0800 (PST), Antti
>
> <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >On Jan 23, 11:24=A0am, Antti <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> it seems that first references to the upcoming Spartan family are in
> >> the wild already
> >it seems that printed version of EE Times has already Virtex-6
> >Spartan-6
> >advertizments in it. can not verify as do not have yet a print copy
>
> >the target url should be
>
> >www.xilinx.com/6
>
> >so we should probably see there something pretty soon
> >as Xilinx can not delay the RP announcement any more
> >long when the print ads are alreayd running
>
> "Everything Changes February 2, 2009
>
> Sign up and be the first to know more about Virtex=AE-6 and Spartan=AE-6
> FPGA Families."
>
> Interesting, the Submit button appears broken, but if you edit
> "testlinx.com" to "Xilinx.com", the registration may have
worked.
> Not quite ready to go live then...
>
> - Brian

its not broken, was working now.

well will see, do they really say
"the Spartan-6 with ARM core will be available on digikey on <insert
date here>"

or please have patience.. the ES samples of arm enabled S-6 silicon
will
be shipping to EA customers in year 201x ?

but only a few days ;) to know this

Antti

> What happened to 4 & 5?

Looks like Xilinx marketing want to 'resync' as the Virtex 6 and
Spartan 6
(and hey, it's a number  higher than Altera so that's worth something
in their
world, right ;)

Anyone seen package choices for Spartan 6 yet ?

Are Xilinx going to push prices, or leave the sub $1 / Low power area
to Actel ?

-jg