Lattice Semi

Luc,

I understand your decision.  And, I hope all goes well with your project.

I will say that after what happened during the introduction of V4 FX,
that Xilinx has placed many "gates" and "systems" to prevent a
re-occurrence of that terrible time.

To that end, the release of Virtex 5, and the GTP's, has been a real
pleasure (for us, and our customers).

Austin

Hi Mike,

I recently started working for a Lattice distributor in Ireland / UK
and I am fairly shocked by your experience.

> Lattice:  Despite the abysmal experience of a visit by the UK/Ireland
> Sales manager, I was still keen to learn of competing products, so I
> attended a seminar arranged by a distributor.  This was excellent, so

In my own experience Lattice sales and FAE support has been very
good.

> I made enquiries about buying a development kit.  It seemed that the
> XP10 demo board would be best and the distributor was offering this at
> the "special" price of $555.
>
I have got a feeling maybe they have quoted you for an XP2 standard
eval board.
XP2 was released about 6-8 months ago and would have been around that
price when it came out first.
XP2 is the latest NV based device family which is on a 90nm
Flexi:Flash based arch.

Regards
Eoin Dowling
FMG Electronics

>> Lattice:  Despite the abysmal experience of a visit by the UK/Ireland
>> Sales manager...

>I recently started working for a Lattice distributor in Ireland / UK
>and I am fairly shocked by your experience.
:
:
>Eoin Dowling
>FMG Electronics

I should probably make it clear that our poor experience was not with
FMG Electronics.

Mike

Hi Mike,


I tried sending you a mail there.
If you are still interested send me a mail as we can set you up with
an Eval board.


Eoin