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I hope he's not refering the 74 series logic chips. The last time I saw one of those was at university 10 years ago (and on one of my companies' old old boards, about 20 years old). I dont think anyone uses 74 series stuff seriously any more (IIRC, a 74 series chip has about 4 gates on it. Given you have hundreds of thousands of LUTs on modern devices, the number of 74 chips would be silly.)
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Probably something similar to that. I don't think he works in FPGA filed recently. The only reason why I am working on FPGA design is to prove that the algorithm is implementable in hardware. And the algorithm is actually the core of the research.
I am also pretty sure that when he asked this question he didn't refer to any product of Altera company. He once gave me a very old board from XILINX. May XILINX has standard chips but Altera doesn't?
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