Re: another FPGA/asic vendor dead :(

Antti Lukats wrote:
hum, where did you find this?
i am also looking at STW22000 news all the time, but its seems kinda vaporware or at least not obtainable ?

antti 

Antti,
Here is the link
http://www.st.com/stonline/press/news/year2005/p1711p.htm

ST seem to have two branches of ARM+FPGA, this one they call SPEAr,
and they claim samples now, Eval PCBs in Dec....
Price of $12/Volume, 200K FPGA, ADC, 3 x HS-USB(!), Ethernet,
SDRAM and I think SPI-SerialFlash boot ?

-jg


read carefully - the SPEAr is customized eAsic.
the fabric is e-beam programmed.


 Well, seems you are right, but one needs to go three layers down.

The marketdroid that wrote the link above, decided eBEAM
might scare off some customers, so better to use words
like "configurable logic" & "unprecedented flexibility and time to market".

 You have to go deeper into the lower pages, and voila,
words like NRE and eBEAM start to appear.

Next questions most customers will ask, is what exaclty is 'low NRE', and what volumes does this approach really kick-in at ?

-jg

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