[HH] FPGAs price competitive with ASICs?

[Drew Van Zandt]

I use FPGAs, but generally only for work projects.  Exception: TS-7500 has
a dual-core ARM + FPGA, and is reasonably priced.  ($139/1, $100 qty 10,
$84 qty 100).

I'd love to see something like it with the Zynq.



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On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jon Evans <jon at craftyjon.com> wrote:

> 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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