I'm as always keeping a watch on the accessibility of FPGA for my experimental circuits from easy to order sources such as digikey.com or mouser.com And I recently noticed that there are now quite a few good offers in the $20-40 range even with up to 500k gates In comparison are all the big offers such as Xilinx. Latticesemi, Altera and Actel However some say gate equivalents some logic units and who knows what else ... How do these numbers relate and why? Happy weekend and thanks! Tobias skype: moontogo You develop an open source motor controller at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoBox -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist