Mesa Electronics 5I23: General-purpose I/O card has a 400,000-gate FPGA

The general-purpose programmable 5I23 industrial I/O card aims at PCI buses. Claiming to be an Anything I/O card, the device uses a 400,000-gate Xilinx FPGA for logic. A downloadable FPGA configuration from the PCI-bus side allows creation of most specialized I/O function. The 5I23 I/O card costs $153 (100).

Mesa Electronics, www.mesanet.com