[HH] FPGAs price competitive with ASICs?

[Jon Evans]

The Spartan 6 LX9 is cheap in volume.  Heck, it's only $18 in single units
from Digi-key, and when you buy in volume from a Xilinx partner you get way
better prices than the ones on Digi-key.


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Kurt L Keville <kkeville at mit.edu> wrote:

> I am always amazed when I see what kid of FPGA you can get from a
> Kickstarter
> project. Parallella has a Xilinx Zyng-7000 on it and Parallella only costs
> $99
> (as compared to the $349 deep academic discount of a Zedboard).
>
> Now there is Logi-Bone... a Spartan 6 shield for $69? How in the name of
> Sam
> Hill are they doing that? Volume? I doubt it...
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1575992013/logi-fpga-
> development-board-for-raspberry-pi-beagl
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