Ever since I opened my eyes to the digital world, I've been using Xilinx FPGAs back in the days of foundation series 2.1i. I might be big time subjective with this regard, but I like the X's in Xilinx and don't intend to change this hehe. In courtesy of inventing FPGAs, mother Xilinx should be choice no. 1 for all of you guys duh.
Take Actel's Fusion series of FPGAs - they have built-in programmable analog sections. Other Actel FPGAs use on chip flash to store the image - they are live at power-up and don't need to be configured like Xilinx and Altera.