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Honored ContributorOn the Cyclone II versioning issue, I feel your pain.. There's a few threads on that:
http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43127&goto=newpost Some projects we have used FPGA's for: Wide band multi-channel software defined radios: Receiving both OOK/FSK data formats across 128 channels simultaneously. High data rate sampling system, with large DSP requirements. Takes samples at 102.4 MHz, and process the data at the sample rate. Custom logic video image system that requires custom video processing and system control at frame rates. A system with a Large IO requirement that requires realtime updates. ASIC Development platform. If you want to make a low cost custom chip, you have to spend big money up front. FPGA's are used to make sure your logic works before you spend the $million mask costs.. You can pretty much do anything with an FPGA, if you can't keep up with the processing, an FPGA is great, for offloading the CPU. How long it takes, really depends on your requirements. Pete
