The FPGA prop1 is a lot of gates. You can fit two Z80s in much less space
than one prop.
On 2 Sep 2014 08:26, "Andrew Bingham" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Parallax has not made any announcement to this effect at all, so I think
> it's just an issue with Farnell.  Parallax has always said  they intend to
> support Propeller for 10+ years beyond "now"....
>
> In fact since their first version of "Propeller 2" failed (too much power
> draw when converted from FPGA to ASIC) they are working on a "new"
> "Propeller 2" that is almost done that is based more closely on Propeller
> 1.  That is nearly close to having the design done and ready for testing in
> FPGA.
>
> In addition the original Propeller 1 Verilog has been released Open Source
> - allowing for more cogs, more IO pins, etc in FPGA form.
>
> So I think it's safe to say Propeller is here to stay.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Monday, September 1, 2014 10:06:47 PM UTC-7, picmaster wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Just saw that Farnell doesn't offer anymore the P8X32A mcu. Do you know
>> anything about this? My gut feeling is that all good parts die first.
>> Let's hope I'm wrong this time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nikolay
>>
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