One more note: for anyone actually looking to make an ASIC, check out:

http://www.mosis.com/

They have special pricing for academic and non-commercial customers.
I've never used them but I worked out about 5 years ago that to have a
small IC made in their cheapest process (1 or 2 micron I think) such
as an op-amp, would be about $500 US for non-commercial customers. I'm
sure it goes up dramatically for something the size of a processor.

Sean


On 9/11/07, Sean Breheny <shb7@cornell.edu> wrote:
> One of the nice, newer FPGAs that I've used that doesn't require any
> external memory is the Lattice LFXP series (in particular, the LFXP3).
> It is available in PQFP, too, which is nice (not BGA).
>
> Sean
>
>
> On 9/11/07, Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net> wrote:
> >
> > Note though that most FPGAs are NOT flash. On power up they load their
> > bit files from EEPROMs on the board, so you'll have to buy the EEPROMs
> > as well, and hook those up to the FPGA (another reason that if you're
> > just starting, and don't want to spend on an FPGA board I recommend
> > CPLDs, they don't need these proms). There are some newer FPGAs that can
> > store their bit files inside themselves though.
> >
> > TTYL
> >
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