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To: Larry Brew who wrote (2066)	11/16/1997 12:07:00 AM
From: Michael Harney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6180

Larry, Some technical thoughts. After working with FPGA's for the last couple of years, I see an advantage that Xilinx and Altera might have over TI (and they are doing DSP modules -www.xilinx.com- that drop into their parts now) - FPGA's can do many functions (including DSP) in parallel without having to exectute one instruction at a time like Von-Neumann-based DSPs. That not only speeds up their throughput, but the FPGA's are running with an Fmax of about 100 Mhz and have a density of around 200K gates now (about half that in registers for DSP accumulators). TI has the upper hand on mixed-signal integration, though. What do you think? Mike