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To: ynot who wrote (5317)	9/22/1999 5:44:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Ear to the ground: Suppose you are Nokia and Ericsson or MOT. You have three generations of data over wireless in the pipeline. They will be installed in phases. (I hope you have heard about the Last Mile over the air interface new developments.) You can't persuade your customers -the operators- to change the HW everytime one of these new applications come along. First you go from voice to data with the GPRS standard. You install a big part of new HW. Then as EDGE comes along, you 'tell' you cards out there to behave according to this new standard. Then when the 3G is ready, you upgrade your soft-HW to do 3G stuff. You can do that with FPGA's. You can also have a satellite in orbit and tell the HW in it to do some new stuff if they use FPGA's.

To: ynot who wrote (5317)	9/22/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Hello ynot, it's still a ways off. These systems are generally referred to as 4th Generation and beyond. Power consumption is a key issue for the programmable logic and reconfigurable datapath portions, and the word I get is most think .13 micron processes are necessary to achieve all the cost, density, and power goals. That could probably be considered the initial trigger. re:<<can these chips be effectively (cheaply and efficiently) be used in combination? some in at webserver, in CO, in handsets, in PC's so they are complimentary rather than being specific and applied to one function in one location within one device?>> One of the advantages is that such linked combinations wouldn't be necessary. The client device reconfigures itself to accommodate whatever host is available. I posted some links to related sites a while back, but naturally I can't find them with SI's world-beater search capabilities. dh