On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Herbert Graf <hkgraf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Die area mostly. The Spartans are small, the Virtex's are big. Cost vs.
> die area is not a linear relationship.
>
> Also: Spartans are meant to be cheap, Virtexs are not, so there is a
> factor of "what the market will bear".
>

Understandable.


> > Also, when will the new Kintex and Artix chips be out? They claim Virte=
x
> 6
> > performance at less than half the cost.
>
> The "big" chips: soon (as in, engineering samples in a few months), the
> smaller chips, next year, is the last I've been told, at the earliest.


Can you estimate a price for singles of a kintex and artix that are similar
in "size" to a Spartan 3E 500K? Also, any word on whether QFP (leaded)
packages will be available?

I want to know whether to wait for the kintex/artix for my next design or
just stick with a Spartan 6.
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