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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!aesop.synopsys.com!news.synopsys.com!jbuck From: jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium Date: 30 Mar 1996 04:32:01 GMT Organization: Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043-4033 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4jidg1$rjb@hermes.synopsys.com> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4j36ev$prl@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> <3156F9B5.41C67EA6@rah.star-gate.com> <4jd3ad$2in@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deerslayer.synopsys.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13733 comp.os.linux.development.system:20125 comp.os.linux.x:27776 comp.os.linux.hardware:34546 comp.os.linux.setup:47518 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:313 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2812 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2590 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16111 "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: >] Honestly, as the vga chip vendors battle it out it is going to >] be harder and harder to get them to allow us to distribute >] source code to their hardware. Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >Cool! Amancio has a matter compiler that compiles source code >into hardware! Amancio doesn't, but my company does; most chip vendors these days use our synthesis tools. HW design is more like programming all the time. But the VGA chip vendors are unlikely to give you the Verilog or VHDL source to their ASICs. -- -- Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> (not speaking for Synopsys, Inc) Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. -- Vaclav Havel