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To: Bilow who wrote (2153)	12/23/1998 10:15:00 PM
From: w2j2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3291

Carl, I think this error message: < No 5 input support yet turkey! > means you forgot to put the stuffing in... wj

To: Bilow who wrote (2153)	12/24/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: Lucinos	Respond to of 3291

Hi Carl, No doubt at all, most of the ASIC's don't need to go to .25u. By converting the FPGA prototype designs to ASIC, the overall cost for the majority of them can be significantly reduced in a longer term. Personally, I don't think XLNX and ALTR are able to take a noticeable portion of ASIC market in the next few years. However, since the ASIC market is huge, by taking a little bit of it could mean a significant increase for the FPGA's. This is probably one of the reason that I am a XLNX/ALTR stock holder (from time to time), although I have never used any FPGA before. As for your question, the performance for some designs can certainly be benefited by using the .25u process (by excluding the effect of cost). However, the good support for the .25u is not really there in the world at this moment, and will probably not be available for the next 6 months to a year of time. I would like to think the performance difference between the ASIC and FPGA might be reduced for some special applications in this period of time (since the ASIC will stay with .35 for a while and the FPGA's are going into .25 and .20). However, as you may say, this argument should not be applied to all the cases. Merry X'mas. PL