___________________________________________________________ The DINI Group Newsletter January 20, 2003 ___________________________________________________________ * DN5000k10S has started shipping (Single Stratix EP1S80) * DN5000k10 has started shipping (up to 5 Stratix EP1S80's) * DN3000k10S and DN3000k10 now shipping with 2v8000's * PCIX Extender - It's alive ... * 2GB SDRAM DIMM's now available for all DINI Group products * 1M x 36 SSRAM from Samsung now available for all DINI Group Products The Dini Group at DesignCon 2003 * The Dini Group at DATE '03 in Munich, Germany ____________________________________________________________ DN5000k10S has started shipping (Single Stratix EP1S80) We have started shipping the DN5000k10S. This is our first product based on the Altera Stratix FPGA's and has the following features: 1 Altera Stratix FPGA in the 1508 FineLine BGA package (EP1S80) 4 -- 512k x36 SSRAM's 512 Mbytes DDR SDRAM 512 Mbytes SDRAM PC133 (in a 72-bit DIMM) The Stratix stuff has some nice features and is quite compelling. The EP1S80 has a ton of very flexible embedded memory - 928 Kbytes (this is BYTES not bits). The EP1S80 has 79k FF's making it the largest FPGA that has a reasonable price. http://www.dinigroup.com/products/5000k10s.html ____________________________________________________________ DN5000k10 has started shipping (up to 5 Stratix EP1S80's) We have started shipping the DN5000k10. This is our second product based on the Altera Stratix FPGA's and has the following features: 5 Altera Stratix FPGA in the 1508 FineLine BGA package (EP1S80) 4 -- 512k x36 SSRAM's 512 Mbytes SDRAM PC133 (in a 72-bit DIMM) We have as much interconnect as we could get between the FPGA's and we used the largest package we could get. Certify files are included. http://www.dinigroup.com/products/5000k10.html ____________________________________________________________ DN3000k10S and DN3000k10 shipping with 2v8000... Xilinx has started shipping production 2v8000's and I am able to get them. I sometimes have to wait about 10 weeks, but they are available. The 2v8000 is the largest FPGA available today. Each 2v8000 contains: 93,184 FF's 168 -- 18x18 multipliers 168 -- 18kbit RAM's Remember that our DN3000k10 can hold up to five of these devices, so that is more than 465,000 FF's. Not the most price competitive FPGA however ... We are also shipping DN3000k10's and DN3000k10'S with the 2v4000-5, and 2v6000-5. These parts are becoming readily available. I'll alert you when I see any -6 speed grade parts in the 2v4000/6000/8000. I haven't seen any yet. http://www.dinigroup.com/products/3000k10ns.html __________________________________________________________ * 2GB SDRAM DIMM's now available for all DINI Group products We have tested the Samsung 2GB (256k x 72) SDRAM DIMM in all of our products. So if you need more memory, this is one way to get it. __________________________________________________________ * 1M x 36 SSRAM from Samsung now available for all DINI Group Products We can also get the larger 1M x 36 pipeline SSRAM from Samsung. Samsung doesn't like selling it to us, and tortures us, but sometimes we can get them. __________________________________________________________ PCI-X Extender - It's alive ... >From last update: "Tundra appears to have cancelled the TSI320 PCIX Bridge. This is bad news of us, since we were using that product on our PCIX Extender." Well I went ahead and bought a bunch of the parts anyway and we will be coming out with our PCI-X Extender in February '03. This product will allow you to create two PCI-X slots from any known PCI slot - so you won't have to chase down a special PC to do PCI-X development. You will also be able to slow a 64-bit PCI-X slot down to 10MHz - making FPGA emulation much easier. We will only have a limited number of these, but you don't need to rush - the demand for PCI-X has been earth shattering yet. http://www.dinigroup.com/products/pcixext.html __________________________________________________________ The Dini Group at DesignCon 2003 We will have a booth at DesignCon 2003. Come by and laugh at me. This is my first attempt a booth duty in my career. I AM REALLY looking forward to it. I will have DN3000k10's and DN5000k10's to show. http://www.designcon.com/2003/ __________________________________________________________ The Dini Group at DATE '03 in Munich, Germany We will have a booth at Desgin, Automation & Test (DATE '03) in Munich, Germany. So if you happen to be in Europe during the first week of March, stop in to see all the cool stuff. __________________________________________________________ Consulting Services... We have some bandwidth available in our consulting services division. Contact us if you have design tasks that you are having trouble staffing. Mike Dini The Dini Group 1010 Pearl Street Suite #6 La Jolla, CA 92037-5165 Phone: (858) 454-3419 Fax: (858) 454-1728 mailto:info@dinigroup.com __________________________________________________________ Rem0val Instructions: To be rem0ved from this list email to mailto:mdini@dinigroup.com with REM0VE in the subject line.