[HH] FPGAs price competitive with ASICs?

[Greg London]

Maybe I could start with a poll:

How many people on the list use FPGA's for design?



> Nice.
>
> I don't know why the price is so different compared to the zedboard.
> All I can guess is that avnet seems to make prototype boards
> for corporate engineering companies, and they figured those buyers
> could afford a markup. I think thye spent quite a long time to get
> the board to work, plus dealing with the ZYNQ chip being a long time
> in coming. It will be interesting to see how parallella's first
> batch of consumer boards hold up in the field. January maybe?
>
> Has anyone worked with the zynq chip?
> I've fiddled with it using the xilinx pre-built AXI slaves.
> I have some home-grown axi slaves and I haven't
> found a good explanation of how to hook it up
> to the rest of the design.
>
> Greg
>
>> 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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