Shawn Rutledge wrote:
On 9/1/07, Marcin Juszkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/1/07, Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FPGAs of equivalent size are _NOT_ cheap, or low power.
I'd guess the SMedia chip is $20 or so.
Now, go and look for a low power FPGA with the thick end of a megabyte
of embedded RAM, and many thousand gates. It'll be at least $100, maybe
$200.
That's how it used to be. A million-gate Spartan IIIE ranges from
about $20 down to $7.90 at Digikey depending on the number of IO pins
(I think you can easily get under $5 in volume). Power would be the
problem with those chips. I wonder who's the low-power leader for
FPGAs.
Interesting (though I will note the 7.90 one is 100Kgate)
Annoyingly, I managed to get mislead by the lack of sort by price on
digikey.
Time to re-run my script against the FPGA category.
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