On 2011-10-24, at 11:36 PM, V G wrote: > Looking at a Spartan 3E FPGA, which costs around $10, and the smallest Vi= rtex 4 which costs around $150, why is there such a big difference in price= between these two families? >=20 > Also, when will the new Kintex and Artix chips be out? They claim Virtex = 6 performance at less than half the cost.=20 Hopefully they'll be available in qfp packages. BGA is a nightmare to route= and solder and I'll be forced to stick with spartan 6. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .