Nick Jarmany wrote:
You should be aware that the Agilent (C&T) F69000 is end-of-life. Last shipments I believe are early next year.
Note its Asiliant not Agilent. http://www.asiliant.com Last time buy is Feburary 2004. The semi shop making the die is phasing out the process. I guess they were not moving enough of them to justify a re-spin onto a new smaller process. Of course they also may have not had the IP do it either.
Asiliant is basically a bunch of ex-intel, who used to be C&T that when intel decided to shutdown C&T they bought the rights to the C&T dies and started selling them as Asiliant. It's possible that Intel only sold them the die masks and not the VHDL to generate them.
And its a damn shame. Its caused us some heartache as we really didn't find a good replacemnet for them. We had to redesign our own SBC products with ATI M1 chips. ATI (via our Arrow vendor) has been _much_ more difficult to work with.