spartan 3 sample

Hi
Has anybody received spartan 3? The loc distributor claims that it
hasnt been shipped. Any idea on the availability
ANjan

Anjan <anjanr@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Hi
: Has anybody received spartan 3? The loc distributor claims that it
: hasnt been shipped. Any idea on the availability

Look at the latest Spartan III datasheets (ds099-1.pdf). All devices are
still marked as not released yet. From this group I expect that in the next
weeks a batch of engineering samples (probaly S50/200/400/1000 ?) with get
out to the distributors. Only the S50J is available (without
BRAM/Multipliers).

Bye
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Actually, we have had a number of 1000J's since the beginning of August
last year.

They are not suppose to last too long in a 3.3V system, but they 
work great in a few designs we have especially with the new speed 
files (still needs to be faster though :-).

The problem now appears to be getting production parts in volume.  
I have wanted to place an order for months, but they can't give 
me a delivery date, so we can't launch the product :-(

ricky

> Look at the latest Spartan III datasheets (ds099-1.pdf). All devices are
> still marked as not released yet. From this group I expect that in the next
> weeks a batch of engineering samples (probaly S50/200/400/1000 ?) with get
> out to the distributors. Only the S50J is available (without
> BRAM/Multipliers).

Ricky Sticky wrote:
> Actually, we have had a number of 1000J's since the beginning of August
> last year.
> 
> They are not suppose to last too long in a 3.3V system, but they 
> work great in a few designs we have especially with the new speed 
> files (still needs to be faster though :-).
> 
> The problem now appears to be getting production parts in volume.  
> I have wanted to place an order for months, but they can't give 
> me a delivery date, so we can't launch the product :-(
>

Maybe you don't want enough ? - This is a press release
that seems to be claiming high volume adoption ?
-jg

#Thursday January 8, 5:43 pm ET
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#<...> This has driven Spartan-3 device adoption further into higher 
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