Is Virtex4 comercially available now?

[presto]

any idea about how much the chip costs?

cheers

 

[videohu]

you can contact your local distributor, they will provide you with this kind of informaiton. or you can lodge the xilinx website to check it. Good luck!

 

[eltonjohn]

Yes virtex4 is already there .. you can already get evaluations boards from Avnet price around $300..

 

[Git]

Comercially available?. No.

Git

 

[maestor]

Is the price of Avnet only $300?

I've checked on the web and it says

$299.00 USD*
*Special offer in North America only until 12/31/04

fair enough.

I think this Avnet card is just a marketing move of X!linx. It was just announced after @ltera announced that they were SHIPPING Stratix II devices. And this evaluation card from Avnet has got a Virtex-4 LX which I think is just a Virtex-2 (more or less ) it doesn't have Power PC, nor High Speed IO...


-maestor

 

[bibo1978]

maestor ,

Although may be V-4 LX is like the Virtex-II but it is much cheaper and also all V-4 can work at speeds up to 500 MHz which was never met before, thanks to the pseudo- 90 nm technology.

 

[maestor]

Hi,

I'm not saying that V-4 is not much cheaper, of course it's cheaper...

I was just highlighting when X!linx/Avnet releases this card, just when Stratix-II came up, and Stratix-II is a real beast, not like V-4 LX.

I am a X1linx supporter man! but I have to say that Altera are doing good things.

How big is that v-4 Lx (in slices plz) on that Eval. Board?

-maestor

 

[power-twq]

yes, Virtex4 comercially is available now,

price is about thousands dollars.

but the performance is excellent.



best regards

any idea about how much the chip costs?

cheers

 

[Sandeep Karkera]

Virtex 4 are commercially available
where LX is the cheaper and FX is the costlier in the family. It should be some $500 for medium LX device and for that of FX device it is around $900.

Because of the 90 nm technology, less power and speed the LX family is much more better than Virtex II

Regards
Sandeep