digikey lists the 7010 going for $55. http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?mpart=XC7Z010-1CLG225C&vendor=122
What chips/families do you use? > 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 >> > -- _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
