Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Xilinx
Message-ID: <1989Aug5.224902.4724@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8897@june.cs.washington.edu> <21040@cup.portal.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 89 22:49:02 GMT

In article <21040@cup.portal.com> Thomas@cup.portal.com (Tom Newton Biggs) writes:
>The problem with this part is that to design with it you need at least
>6 Meg of memory in your pc, and the pc must be a fast '386 type or it
>is frustatingly slow...

Well, the *problem* with this part, and with a number of other programmable-
logic devices for that matter, is that the algorithm for converting circuit
to programming bits is secret.  The software would improve if it had some
competition.
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