Kasli cost would be 400-600EUR depending on quantity, so additional 30$
does not make any difference.

On 29 June 2017 at 23:32, Joe Britton via ARTIQ <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I concur with Tom and Daniel's observations favoring a larger (100T) FPGA.
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Thomas Harty via ARTIQ
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Octopart Avnet costs for 1 unit
> >>
> >> XC7A100T-2CSG324C $131.22
> >> XC7A50T-2CSG324C $74.98
> >
> > FWIW, AFAICT we’d want the FGG484 for the 4 GTPs. Price from Avnet is
> then 170EUR for the 100T v 100EUR for the 50T. Cost difference is still
> something like 35EUR taking into account Greg’s comment.
> >
> > Greg, how much do you think it will cost to buy a complete Kasli?
> Assuming it’s something like $500-$1k, the $35 difference in FPGA cost
> seems like a non-issue to me.
> >
> >> Kasli was meant to be a simple and low-cost board without a backplane,
> >> and you are now using the backplane as an argument…
> >
> > The BP can be a simple break-out adapter, as suggested by Robert. This
> is our current plan for running a 16 channel laser servo from a single
> Kasli.
> >
> > T
> >
> >
> >
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:16:32 +0000
> >> From: Thomas Harty <[email protected]>
> >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6
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> >> Sébastien,
> >>
> >> Given the relatively low cost of the Artix-7 FPGAs, my preference is
> generally to go as big and as fast as reasonably possible. I don't want to
> find that, for example, we can't fit a hard FPU/fancy servo on Kasli
> because we saved $50 on the FPGA. Also, since gateware development is
> usually much more expensive than hardware, I'd rather go for
> dumb/inefficient gateware on big FPGAs than have to optimise the gateware
> to fit on a smaller FPGA.
> >>
> >> The fact that going for a 75T/100T gives us access to 12EEMs/Kasli (4
> on the BP) rather than 10EEMs/Kasli (only 2 on the BP) for the 50T is an
> added benefit.
> >>
> >> Having said all that, if you think the 50T in the -2 speed grade won't
> be a limitation then I'm happy to go along with your recommendation...
> >>
> >> T
> >>
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> >>   1. Kasli FPGA selection (Sébastien Bourdeauducq)
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:23:04 +0800
> >> From: Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]>
> >> To: Thomas Harty <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Grzegorz
> >>        Kasprowicz <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [ARTIQ] Kasli FPGA selection
> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> >>
> >> On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 04:52 PM, Thomas Harty wrote:
> >>> Have we settled on the 50T as the FPGA for the first version of Kasli,
> >>> and what speed grade?
> >>
> >> I would advocate for the 50T in -2 speed grade for two main reasons:
> >> a) I don't think we need that much FPGA resources for the 100T to be
> needed.
> >> b) -2 speed grade transceivers go to 6.25Gbps whereas -1 speed grade
> >> ones go to 3.75Gbps. In addition to a significant increase in bandwidth,
> >> the -2 transceivers can use the same configuration on the Metlino/Sayma
> >> side which is used for the backplane (5Gbps). Otherwise we would have to
> >> generate another set of Ultrascale transceiver settings (and shave a
> >> yak) and potentially deal with weird RTIO frequency ratios in a hybrid
> >> MTCA/Eurocard Sinara system.
> >>
> >> Sébastien
> >>
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> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:27:17 +0000
> >> From: "Slichter, Daniel H. (Fed)" <[email protected]>
> >> To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6
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> >> I second Tom's thoughts here -- I would go for the largest Artix-7 we
> can reasonably accommodate, just for flexibility.  Going with the -2 speed
> grade sounds like it makes a lot of sense.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Daniel
> >>
> >> ________________________________
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> >> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 4:16:32 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6
> >>
> >> Sébastien,
> >>
> >> Given the relatively low cost of the Artix-7 FPGAs, my preference is
> generally to go as big and as fast as reasonably possible. I don't want to
> find that, for example, we can't fit a hard FPU/fancy servo on Kasli
> because we saved $50 on the FPGA. Also, since gateware development is
> usually much more expensive than hardware, I'd rather go for
> dumb/inefficient gateware on big FPGAs than have to optimise the gateware
> to fit on a smaller FPGA.
> >>
> >> The fact that going for a 75T/100T gives us access to 12EEMs/Kasli (4
> on the BP) rather than 10EEMs/Kasli (only 2 on the BP) for the 50T is an
> added benefit.
> >>
> >> Having said all that, if you think the 50T in the -2 speed grade won't
> be a limitation then I'm happy to go along with your recommendation...
> >>
> >> T
> >>
> >> ________________________________________
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> >> Subject: ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6
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> >>   1. Kasli FPGA selection (Sébastien Bourdeauducq)
> >>
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:23:04 +0800
> >> From: Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]>
> >> To: Thomas Harty <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Grzegorz
> >>        Kasprowicz <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [ARTIQ] Kasli FPGA selection
> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 04:52 PM, Thomas Harty wrote:
> >>> Have we settled on the 50T as the FPGA for the first version of Kasli,
> >>> and what speed grade?
> >>
> >> I would advocate for the 50T in -2 speed grade for two main reasons:
> >> a) I don't think we need that much FPGA resources for the 100T to be
> needed.
> >> b) -2 speed grade transceivers go to 6.25Gbps whereas -1 speed grade
> >> ones go to 3.75Gbps. In addition to a significant increase in bandwidth,
> >> the -2 transceivers can use the same configuration on the Metlino/Sayma
> >> side which is used for the backplane (5Gbps). Otherwise we would have to
> >> generate another set of Ultrascale transceiver settings (and shave a
> >> yak) and potentially deal with weird RTIO frequency ratios in a hybrid
> >> MTCA/Eurocard Sinara system.
> >>
> >> Sébastien
> >>
> >>
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> >> To: Thomas Harty <[email protected]>,
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> >> On Thursday, June 29, 2017 06:16 PM, Thomas Harty via ARTIQ wrote:
> >>> The fact that going for a 75T/100T gives us access to 12EEMs/Kasli (4
> >>> on the BP) rather than 10EEMs/Kasli (only 2 on the BP) for the 50T is
> >>> an added benefit.
> >> Kasli was meant to be a simple and low-cost board without a backplane,
> >> and you are now using the backplane as an argument...
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
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> >> Message: 4
> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:43:00 -0400
> >> From: Joe Britton <[email protected]>
> >> To: Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Thomas Harty
> >>       <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6
> >> Message-ID:
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> com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
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> >> Octopart Avnet costs for 1 unit
> >>
> >> XC7A100T-2CSG324C $131.22
> >> XC7A50T-2CSG324C $74.98
> >>
> >> Greg, What is the cost differential between 50T-2 and 100T-2 assuming
> >> Xilinx open source pricing? -Joe
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
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> >> Message: 5
> >> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:55:16 +0200
> >> From: Grzegorz Kasprowicz <[email protected]>
> >> To: Joe Britton <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Thomas Harty
> >>       <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: Re: [ARTIQ] ARTIQ Digest, Vol 37, Issue 6
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> >> Usually one can expect half of octopart prices.
> >> So the difference would be about 30$
> >>
> >> On 29 June 2017 at 21:43, Joe Britton via ARTIQ <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Octopart Avnet costs for 1 unit
> >>>
> >>> XC7A100T-2CSG324C $131.22
> >>> XC7A50T-2CSG324C $74.98
> >>>
> >>> Greg, What is the cost differential between 50T-2 and 100T-2 assuming
> >>> Xilinx open source pricing? -Joe
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