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- From: philip@xilinx.com (Philip Freidin)
- Subject: Re: Why no tri-state outputs in FPGA cells?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.191251.704@xilinx.com>
- Sender: usenet@xilinx.com
- Organization: Xilinx Inc.
- References: <1992Dec15.010020.9274@super.org> <1992Dec15.193837.8890@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Dec17.170431.2520@xilinx.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:12:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.170431.2520@xilinx.com> philip@xilinx.com (Philip Freidin) writes:
- >
- >Enter advertising mode:
- >
- > One of the facilities of the Xilinx products that differentiates us
- > from all the other lowly wanna-bees is that our XC3000 and XC4000
- > products are full of tri-state buses. These are driven by what we
-
- etc... etc... blah blah..... and other self-serving
- stuff about his company's products.
-
- Here is some info on another manufacturer's products:
-
- Concurrent Logic has a product called the CLI6005 (a member of a family
- of products, but this is all I have seen data on so far) which has the
- following characteristics (Note that I do not work for this company, nor
- am I a "happy user" of their products. I am just doing some "truth in
- advertising" stuff, and hope my management doesn't catch me :-) )
-
-
- The CLI6005 is an array of 7 by 7 big tiles (49 tiles) each madeup of
- 8 by 8 blocks (64 blocks per tile) for a total of 3136 blocks.
-
- Each block can implement 1 or 2 2-input gates (not an exhaustive list
- like the Xilinx products, but an interesting mix of combinations), or
- a mux or a flipflop with 1 or 2 gates ( much simpler list of options).
- Each block also includes a tristateable buffer, that connects to
- bus lines that span a tile (ie upto 8 tbufs in a row or column within
- a tile). Their are facilities for these buses to span more than 1
- tile, although some of this seems unidirectional. As their are 49 tiles
- with atmost 32 of these tile spanning bus lines, theoretically you
- could have 1568 such tbuf lines. Of course such a configuration couldn't
- do anything useful. The architecture certainly could support a few
- hundred such lines, and have logic and routing available to do useful
- stuff.
-
- Philip Freidin (408)879-5180
-
-
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