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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Hardwarehacking mailing list >> Hardwarehacking@blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking >> > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > Hardwarehacking@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > -- _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
