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" <em...@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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 >
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