dear casper collaborators,
our collaboration is growing and
xilinx requested we aggregate most of our donation
requests so xilinx doesn't have to process as many requests.
instead of each university or organization requesting chips,
xilinx proposed they would give us a bulk donation of chips,
perhaps quarterly, for academic and research use (not to be
used by companies - companies must buy the chips).
boards would be built, hopefully ahead of time,
so boards would be more likely to be in stock.
this is similar to what xilinx does with the digilent
and netfpga programs.
universities that need one or two chips would
receive them without going through the xilinx university program.
large requests would likely go to xilinx's university program,
as before.
are you comfortable with this? suggestions?
xilinx would like us to provide them with an estimate of the
casper collaboration's needs for the year,
for both small and large programs.
can each casper institution please email me a list of the chips
you anticipate needing this year (calendar year 2010)?
1) rough number of roach boards
rough date(s) needed
(rough expected number and
if it's very uncertain, rough maximum, minimum)
SX95T or LX110T? (most people use SX95T)
-1 or -2 speed grade? (most people use -1).
2) number of iBOB boards? (expected number, and max/min)
rough date(s) needed
Best Wishes,
Dan
