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From: Colin Paul Gloster on 4 Jun 2010 09:55
On Tue, 25 May 2010, Philip Pemberton sent:

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|Can't say I've tried Lattice's FPGAs. I looked at them a few years ago|
|and basically discounted them because I couldn't get hold of them |
|(although I could get a programming cable... for £595, [..] |
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Yikes.
From: rickman on 4 Jun 2010 09:01
On Jun 4, 9:55 am, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...(a)ACM.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2010, Philip Pemberton sent:
>
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> |"[..]                                                                 |
> |                                                                      |
> |Can't say I've tried Lattice's FPGAs. I looked at them a few years ago|
> |and basically discounted them because I couldn't get hold of them     |
> |(although I could get a programming cable... for £595, [..]           |
> |[..]                                                                  |
> |                                                                      |
> |[..]"                                                                 |
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>
> Yikes.

That has changed. The ones I buy are available from stock at Mouser
and the programming cable is $150 US. In fact, the part I am using
the the lowest cost FPGA I can find in a 100 TQFP. It is a flash
based XP3C device. The software works as well as anyone's and it is
getting the job done. Other than the fact that this footprint has no
upward compatible path I have no complaints.

Rick
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