FPGA VAX update

[Michael Holley]

Answering my own post:
> all from Xilinx. After competing with NeoCad for a few years Xilinx bought 
> them in 1995 and used the NeoCad tools.

I looked up some more facts. NeoCad was founded in November 1991 and had 
about 50 employees when it was sold to Xilinx in March 1995 for $35 million.

The large FPGAs back then were pushing 10,000 gates.

Michael Holley
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