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To: schlep who wrote (2033)	4/29/1999 11:58:00 PM
From: Sylvia Dupuis	Respond to of 2389

Am not a marketing person for any company. Lobotomies are not my forte. Anyway, I've seen FPGAs from the days they were LCAs. We could get into a long winded discussion about architectures, but you may ask yourself why one hot state machines are so popular in FPGAs? Because they can't handle multiple levels of logic in an efficient fashion! Complex state machines generate large next state vector calculations. And as I have stated before, FPGAs cannot do this well. Sure, if you want to have one state machine in an FPGA, and that's all, fine. It will run fast. But start to fill it up with multiple copies and you run into the routing wall(not an Oasis single). The bottom line is that if I need a fast logic design design done with a minimum of fuss or place and route shenanigans then CPLDs are the way to go. And in the majority of datacom designs I have done and seen, speed is the rule. I believe that Altera is in for some rude awakenings. I personally have no qualms about buying Xilinx, but Altera to me has significant exposure. IMHO Later!