Virtex 5 announced

Marc, not on a public newsgroup.
Send me an e-mail for more details...

peter@xilinx.com

Marc,

Please contact your local Xilinx FAE.

You might be a good candidate for early access.

Austin

Marc Reinig wrote:

> We are currently planning on the V4 SX55, but really could use more speed, 
> pins, MACs and less power.  Looks like the speed increases slightly, 
> possibly more with the rearranged MAC; the power is down, that's good; will 
> there be an increase in the MACs and pins available?  Any indication of a 
> release date for samples?
> Marco
> ________________________
> Marc Reinig
> UCO/Lick Observatory
> Laboratory for Adaptive Optics
> 
> 

Austin Lesea wrote:

> If anyone wants to berate us for their FX experience on V4, please do
> (we deserve it).

Ok, you asked for it, so here goes:

Tsk, tsk, tsk... how could you let Altera get ahead of you this way...

;-)

Congrats on the new babies. They look good!

Best regards,


Ben

Ben,

Thanks.

And, yes, it was painful to trip on V4 FX, but we still beat them with a 
gigabit transceiver for 90nm....just not by the six months we had 
intended to originally.

Austin

Ben Twijnstra wrote:

> Austin Lesea wrote:
> 
> 
>>If anyone wants to berate us for their FX experience on V4, please do
>>(we deserve it).
> 
> 
> Ok, you asked for it, so here goes:
> 
> Tsk, tsk, tsk... how could you let Altera get ahead of you this way...
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Congrats on the new babies. They look good!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Ben

> And, yes, it was painful to trip on V4 FX, but we still beat them with a
> gigabit transceiver for 90nm....just not by the six months we had
> intended to originally.

Perhaps *a* gigabit... but certainly not 6, nor a robust 3 :-)

Sorry, couldn't resist.

- Paul

hm to my understanding the V4 MGT are stripped down from original spec
(10G) to meat the serdes in Stratix-IIGX ? So where do the V4 serdes
beat SII-GX ? Perhaps they do, but for me it's not so obvious (not
since the virtex 10G rocketio is "taken out" from V2Pro-X and V4).

Paul,
I assume Cyclone-III, Stratix-III, MAX3 products will come H1 2007,
(based on Altera claim that 65nm Altera products are announed late
2006) - I wonder if Altera will get the 65nm products (some) out this
year? If we can expect the announcement, then I would assume Altera
would claim their 65nm being shipped at the time of the press release
(late 2006?)

Hi Antti,

I cannot comment on announcement or release timeframes for our next-gen
product family/families.  But I'm sure you didn't expect me to answer
your question :-)

All I can tell you is that our next-gen products will be pretty cool.

Regards,

- Paul

well, yes-no ;) the info about Altera 65nm press coming out this year
(end of) is directly from Altera (not from rep or disti), so if that
info is out-dated, e.g. if the Altera 65nm PR is either coming way
earlier or way later, than on that topic you may have responded. no
comment means that the assumption (end of 2006) could still be consider
best guess ?

Antti
PS hope you guy fixup the mockup with MAX2, I mean machXO beats MAX2
hands down, not that MAX2 is bad, it's pretty nice, but.. no RAM is a
real issue

Hi Antti,

No comment means that we could be coming out any time.

Max II is pretty awesome in many ways (performance, cost per logic
function, etc.).  There are some applications where non-volatility and
RAM would be handy, and these aren't addressed by Max II.  We've got
that feedback and will factor it into future architecture decisions --
but its always a trade-off of the cost (die-size impact) of adding
additional features vs. the size of the market that those additional
features will open to us.

Regards,

- Paul

Antti,

The heat is really on now.  Since we announced the LX50, LX85 and LX110, 
all sampling (and already sampled), the heat up on North 1st Street has 
got to be intense.

"No comment" could also mean "Oh Crud!"

Three days, 5 hours since V5, and counting .....

Tick, tick, tick, tick ....

No pressure, really.  Take your time.

Tick, tick, tick, tick ....

Austin

Paul Leventis wrote:

> Hi Antti,
> 
> No comment means that we could be coming out any time.
>