[HH] FPGAs price competitive with ASICs?

[Jon Evans]

I do, but haven't tried the Zynq. They have not been price competitive when
compared to a discrete FPGA and microprocessor combination.
On Dec 19, 2013 5:48 PM, "Greg London" <email at greglondon.com> wrote:

>
> 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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