Hi all,
is there anybody with experience with FPGAs from company Achronix 
(www.achronix.com)? I found only a few documents on their web. It looks 
interesting to me but I was not able to find any working contact to any 
sales person. I tried email to the adress on their web but nobody 
responded. I am hoping, that maybe some of people here would have any 
experience or even working contact to the company. Can you help me? Thanks 
you very much.

Jan

Kastil Jan wrote:
> Hi all,
> is there anybody with experience with FPGAs from company Achronix 
> (www.achronix.com)? I found only a few documents on their web. It looks 
> interesting to me but I was not able to find any working contact to any 
> sales person. I tried email to the adress on their web but nobody 
> responded. I am hoping, that maybe some of people here would have any 
> experience or even working contact to the company. Can you help me? 
> Thanks you very much.

good question...
I'm curious too so if anyone has news, i'll read :-)

I just know that Achronix "exists".
AFAIK there is one or two other FPGA startups in "submarine" mode,
waiting for something to make public announcements about
their products. Something like major buying deals,
availability of their toolsuite for customers,
finding distributors... it's a tough and complex industry.

http://www.siliconbluetech.com/ has come "out of nothing"
about a year ago, and still has a long way to go to gain
widespead acceptance. I hope that others will follow !

> Jan


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On Jan 25, 6:50=A0am, Kastil Jan
<ikas...@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> is there anybody with experience with FPGAs from company Achronix
> (www.achronix.com)?I found only a few documents on their web. It looks
> interesting to me but I was not able to find any working contact to any
> sales person. I tried email to the adress on their web but nobody
> responded. I am hoping, that maybe some of people here would have any
> experience or even working contact to the company. Can you help me? Thank=
s
> you very much.
>
> Jan

I am curious, as well.  From their LinkedIn profile it appears that
they've been hiring as recently as 4 months ago.  I can only assume
they're still around.
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/achronix-semiconductor

s...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am curious, as well.  From their LinkedIn profile it appears that
> they've been hiring as recently as 4 months ago.  I can only assume
> they're still around.
> http://www.linkedin.com/companies/achronix-semiconductor

hmmm interesting link.
it says that it was funded in 2004 :
6 years of development and no product
yet on the market : it's a tough and
expensive industry :-/

Anyway, I will be pleased to see their products
one day, they would be a very interesting
complement to other maker's product lines.

yg
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http://ygdes.com / http://yasep.org

On Jan 25, 7:02=A0pm, whygee <y...@yg.yg>
wrote:
> stephen.cra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am curious, as well. =A0From their LinkedIn profile it appears that
> > they've been hiring as recently as 4 months ago. =A0I can only assume
> > they're still around.
> >http://www.linkedin.com/companies/achronix-semiconductor
>
> hmmm interesting link.
> it says that it was funded in 2004 :
> 6 years of development and no product
> yet on the market : it's a tough and
> expensive industry :-/
>
> Anyway, I will be pleased to see their products
> one day, they would be a very interesting
> complement to other maker's product lines.
>
> yg
> --http://ygdes.com/http://yasep.org

Let's hope they are shipping product before 1.5 GHz becomes
the industry norm.

Gabor wrote:
> Let's hope they are shipping product before 1.5 GHz becomes
> the industry norm.

hope is fine, you know...

and I've heard that the latest X&A parts
do push the integration, density and capacity,
but not speed, due to power consumption issues.
so i'm a bit hopeful.

Anyway, if they come too late, they will have
burnt so much money that they will simply close.
Or be bought by X or A...

hurry up !

yg
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http://ygdes.com / http://yasep.org

I've sent them an email to have datasheets and
further information,
but they asked for an non-disclosure agreedment...

The only thing I know is they have collaboration with space and
defence people, but I do not think it would be easy for "normal"
designer to access their products.

mt

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:35:17 -0800 (PST),
maurizio.tranchero wrote:

>I've sent them an email to have datasheets and further information,
>but they asked for an non-disclosure agreedment...
>
>The only thing I know is they have collaboration with space and
>defence people, but I do not think it would be easy for "normal"
>designer to access their products.

The last time I asked, about a year ago, they had distribution
channels and were prepared to sell a development kit - but they
wanted a lot of money for it (around $15k IIRC).

That sounds brutal, but in reality it's a sensible way for an
early-stage startup to restrict their customer base to a few
large, serious customers whom they can then support properly.
They probably have only a tiny handful of applications people, 
and having a large number of small early-adopter customers
would hopelessly stretch their resources.

I would be rather surprised if the products ever appear on
the wider market.  It's much more likely, as someone else
said, that they are aiming to get testimonials from some
big-name early adopter customers, and then sell out to
one of the mainstream FPGA vendors - who would, presumably,
then merge the technology into some future product family.
-- 
Jonathan Bromley

On 27 Jan., 10:39, Jonathan Bromley
<jonathan.brom...@MYCOMPANY.com>
wrote:
> I would be rather surprised if the products ever appear on
> the wider market. =A0It's much more likely, as someone else
> said, that they are aiming to get testimonials from some
> big-name early adopter customers, and then sell out to
> one of the mainstream FPGA vendors - who would, presumably,
> then merge the technology into some future product family.

Quite unusual for big, established Companies to drive adoption of
radical new technology.

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:55:21 -0800 (PST),
untergangsprophet wrote:

>Quite unusual for big, established Companies to drive adoption of
>radical new technology.

Depends what you mean by "drive".  Pretty much every big 
hi-tech company I know about is very active in assessing 
and evaluating a range of novel products and technologies,
and evaluations of that kind are extremely important to
startups for both technical feedback and marketing kudos.

However, it is certainly true that big companies are not
always the quickest to incorporate available new technology
in their products.  Sometimes that's shrewd understanding
of a conservative customer base, sometimes it's just 
corporate inertia.

Anyway, "radical" new technology is rarely reliable and
rarely meets the expectations put on it by enthusiasts.
It's often wise to wait until the "radical" epithet is
no longer applicable.
-- 
Jonathan Bromley