On Jun 29, 10:35*am, radarman <jsham...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 28, 4:45*pm, james <geo...@washington.edu> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:42:25 -0700 (PDT),
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> > "Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com" <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > |On Jun 28, 3:42*pm, CMOS <manusha1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > |> hi,
> > |> im plannining to buy a vertex 2 based FPGA board. this is the link.
> > |>
> > |>http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/...2,400,453&Prod...
> > |>
> > |> does this board worthy for the price of $299?
> > |>
> > |> CMOS
> > |
> > |absolutly, if you get it for $299!
> > |
> > |too bad Xilinx is no longer supporting Virtex-II with their ISE
> > |
> > |ISE 10.1 is the last version that offered V-II support,
> > |
> > |Antti
> > |==========
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> > $299 is the acedemic pricing.
>
> > james
>
> I really wish more companies didn't specifically target "academic",
> and would offer a more broad "non-industrial" price. I'm not in
> college anymore, but I still try to keep my skills honed at home -
> thus, I don't have a student ID, but I still consider myself to be a
> "student".

My previous employer had an "industry discount" which applied
to pretty much anyone non-academic. The reason was that
academic institutions tended to require more product support.
So in effect the educational institutions were the only ones
paying full price. Of course our products were esoteric
enough at the time that we didn't expect the academic users
to design us in when they left school...

Regards,
Gabor