My experience is who has the better FAE, be it a factory person or distributor?  For me, its good either way.  Way back in time, it was Altera for CPLD and Xilinx for FPGA but that was some 10+ years ago.  Now its more even on the playing field, but I still tend to use Altera for the CPLD work.  

John Chung <kravnus@yahoo.com> wrote: 
--- Peter Bindels  wrote:

> On 27/09/2007, John Chung  wrote:
> >
> > --- Florian Voelzke  wrote:
> >
> >
> > > easy to build
> > > yourself. And even buying the FPGAs is not so
> > > complicated - I have more
> > > than 2 sources for smaller ones in TQFP
> packages.
> > > And you can hand
> > > solder TQFP packages with a little practice.
> > >
> >
> >   What kind of FPGA supports this? Model number? I
> > want to have some FPGA accessible to my work than
> to
> > buy a development board... I can't leave my FPGA
> > development lying around.
> 
> I know about the Altera EP2C6T144C7 and the
> EP1C3T144C7 (from mind,
> you might want to search their site). The T144 in
> the product id
> stands for TQFP with 144 pins, search for that and
> you will find more.
> 
> If you want a development board, you can try the
> Altera DE1, which is
> fairly easy to use and complete. It has a BGA
> Cyclone 2 (EP2C) with
> more logic than the 2C6 above, which is useful for
> development. You
> also get 80 free pins to connect to others, which is
> similar to the
> 2C6 connectivity.
> -- 


  Peter,

I am actually torn between the two, Altera and Xilinx.
Both of them are pretty good chips but I am not sure
which one provides better support for small scale
production. So I am torn between the two..... Any
Microchip like company for FPGA?

Thanks,
John


       
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