I hope you like it. Now that Google Groups beta has Usenet archives back to 1995, more or less, you can also search Google's comp.arch.fpga archives . Altera aims APEX II beyond periphery . Three articles from Murray Disman, consulting editor for ChipCenter 's PLD division. It has replaced the now meaningless system gates used by some companies in the part's designator by a number that represents how many logic elements are contained in the part.
Shipments are some three months behind the original schedule.
It turns out it is not as simple as might be thought to integrate an embedded processor and an FPGA fabric. Xilinx Releases Soft 32-bit Processor Core . This year, I don't think I'll be there, alas. Genuinely interesting Proceler 's application specific soft processors. Articles about Proceler .