design optimization

In article <qhk6951f3j.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Eric Smith
<eric@brouhaha.com> wrote:

> Rob wrote:
> > Aren't you and Xilinx developing a new line of FPGA's called "The Crystal 
> > Ball Series"?  Parallel psychic processing that transcends the sphere of 
> > phsyical science or knowledge.
> 
> So *that* is what that recent Xilinx patent on LUTs with negative 100 ps
> propogation delay
> is all about.  Daisy-chain enough of those, and you could really do some
> amazing things!

The problem is that they only work until you program them.

However, since software and firmware are usually very late, that means
that you can deliver when marketing has promised your product, and it
will be out of warantee by the time you deliver the code and it stops
working.

-- 
David M. Palmer  dmpalmer@email.com (formerly @clark.net, @ematic.com)

"Eric Smith" <eric@brouhaha.com> wrote in message 
news:qhk6951f3j.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com...
>
> Given how exotic the materials needed to fabricate these parts are, I 
> expect that they
> will be priced too high for my budget.
>
> Eric
>

As someone has gone and blabbed this into a public newsgroup, I can reveal 
that Googling for "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" 
will reveal more about the materials used.
HTH, Syms. 

Eric Smith schrieb:
> Rob wrote:
> Given how exotic the materials needed to fabricate these parts are, I expect that they
> will be priced too high for my budget.

The rumors must be true.
I asked my local distributor and they have not listed these parts.
Drawing from Spartan-2 and Spartan-3 experience this is a sure sign that
millions of pieces have been sold allready.

Kolja Sulimma