Re: Is is possible to receive a cheep SubVendorID?

[mcr@solidum.com]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave New <NewD@esi.com> writes:
    Dave> On the other hand, FPGA development software/
    Dave> hardware is so expensive, that $2500 is just lost
    Dave> in the noise.  Anyone else that is trying to
    Dave> develop PCI interface circuitry from scratch
    Dave> will have an army of expensive FPGA/LSI design
    Dave> software/hardware at their disposal.  I would

  There are a growing number of hard cores+FPGA and also PCI
interface chips (e.g. Lucent OR3TP12, AMCC S5920s and Tundra parts) that
make PCI interfacing to a bunch of 7400 NAND gates almost feasible.

  While the FPGA software is expensive, one needn't own it,
just have access to it at school or at work.

  Consider some designer working at a big firm who cooks up a PCI interface 
for his garage door opener in his garage.
  I tried to get a product ID from AMCC over two years ago... I never
got one from them. Solidum systems eventually just paid our money and
got our own. Ten minutes with the EEPROM programmer and we were done.

  We also stamp the AMD PCnet32 on our classification NIC with our
sub-id so that we tell it from a stock PCnet32 card. (We have two
targets on our NIC)

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