lovesinghal wrote:
> Hi All,
> Thanks for your responses.
> Marc and Jim, your responses were very interesting. I learned a lot
> going through those searches.
> Rene, I did not say that I will base my PhD topic on this discussion.
> My advisor is helping me decide a topic in a major way. Through this
> side discussion, I want to know the industry opinion and opinions of
> people who use FPGAs in their designs.

Here's another research node : Besides the STW22000 device, in one
of the interviews the Cell Processor designers mentioned having
configurable IO (and how that allowed design closure earlier).
[IIRC IBM does have a cross license to Xilinx FPGAs - Xilinx got the
PowerPC in return].

Does anyone have info on just how configurable the Cell processor IO
is ? Which tool flows support it ?

-jg