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To: Bilow who wrote (32772)	10/25/1999 5:24:00 AM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Carl, In know that this data must come as a surprise to you. Technology has a habit of creeping up on us. In other words, you turn around, and problems get solved. One of the problems that got solved was ground bounce. A big contributor to the solution is the chip scale package itself. The package reduces the pin inductance so much. True enough. Previously I was working with XC4020s in larger packages where the story was a somewhat different. ...did you notice that Xilinx is providing a DDR SDRAM controller as a macrocell (programmed logic) for the Virtex series that you are using? Here is the link (of course Rambus is too difficult to hook up). Yes I did. And as you say Rambus is too difficult to hook up to these devices. If I needed external RAM for a Virtex device I would probably do it that way myself. And yes, I miss Logiblox which I used to good effect with XC4020. John