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From: jbuck@synopsys.com (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 30 Mar 1996 04:32:01 GMT
Organization: Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043-4033
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"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.



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-- Joe Buck 	<jbuck@synopsys.com>	(not speaking for Synopsys, Inc)

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