The Spartan 6 LX9 is cheap in volume. Heck, it's only $18 in single units from Digi-key, and when you buy in volume from a Xilinx partner you get way better prices than the ones on Digi-key.
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Kurt L Keville <kkevi...@mit.edu> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > Hardwarehacking@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >
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