<div dir="ltr">I use FPGAs, but generally only for work projects. Exception: TS-7500 has a dual-core ARM + FPGA, and is reasonably priced. ($139/1, $100 qty 10, $84 qty 100).<div><br></div><div>I'd love to see something like it with the Zynq.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jon Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@craftyjon.com" target="_blank">jon@craftyjon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I do, but haven't tried the Zynq. They have not been price competitive when compared to a discrete FPGA and microprocessor combination. </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 19, 2013 5:48 PM, "Greg London" <<a href="mailto:email@greglondon.com" target="_blank">email@greglondon.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Maybe I could start with a poll:<br>
<br>
How many people on the list use FPGA's for design?<br>
<br>
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<br>
> Nice.<br>
><br>
> I don't know why the price is so different compared to the zedboard.<br>
> All I can guess is that avnet seems to make prototype boards<br>
> for corporate engineering companies, and they figured those buyers<br>
> could afford a markup. I think thye spent quite a long time to get<br>
> the board to work, plus dealing with the ZYNQ chip being a long time<br>
> in coming. It will be interesting to see how parallella's first<br>
> batch of consumer boards hold up in the field. January maybe?<br>
><br>
> Has anyone worked with the zynq chip?<br>
> I've fiddled with it using the xilinx pre-built AXI slaves.<br>
> I have some home-grown axi slaves and I haven't<br>
> found a good explanation of how to hook it up<br>
> to the rest of the design.<br>
><br>
> Greg<br>
><br>
>> I am always amazed when I see what kid of FPGA you can get from a<br>
>> Kickstarter<br>
>> project. Parallella has a Xilinx Zyng-7000 on it and Parallella only<br>
>> costs<br>
>> $99<br>
>> (as compared to the $349 deep academic discount of a Zedboard).<br>
>><br>
>> Now there is Logi-Bone... a Spartan 6 shield for $69? How in the name of<br>
>> Sam<br>
>> Hill are they doing that? Volume? I doubt it...<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1575992013/logi-fpga-development-board-for-raspberry-pi-beagl" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1575992013/logi-fpga-development-board-for-raspberry-pi-beagl</a><br>
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