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From: leslie kater <lkat68@y...>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:05:15 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: RE: [oc] OT : FPGA price
I 've been recently using Actel FPGAs,
proASIC plus (flash based technology),
they might be same level of price but the overall FPGA
sub-system costs less,
-live @ power up,
-no EPROM required,
-no 2A power up spike,
-Firm Error Immune (configuration upset due to heavy
particles)
-real ambient temp range and not junction one
I've heard that they are gonna launch a new flash
family in jan04 bigger and even cheaper than Cyclon &
Spartan3
Les
--- Michael Ayton <mike_ayton@d...> wrote: >
I looked at implementing that sort of functionality
> into a cyclone using the
> NIOS processor and the open cores ethernet mac but
> considering the level of
> work and versus the cost, I decided to just use a
> ColdFire 5272 processor.
> It has all of that functionality and more for just
> $11 in low volumes. It
> also supporse eCos, uCLinux, and others.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cores@o...
> [mailto:owner-cores@o...]On
> Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: cores@o...
> Subject: Re: [oc] OT : FPGA price
>
>
> christian@m... wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Somebody knows some FPGA (high density) to be able
> to design a full
> > system (CPU, Ethernet, USB, etc.) and very
> important, the price of
> > each FPGA unit has to be about 20$ US. I got some
> information about
> > the Cyclone FPGA, and it's really expansive for a
> high density FPGA
> > (about 300 $) - EP1C20F400.
> >
>
> The EP1C20F400 is a 400-pin FPGA with about 1
> million gates. Sounds
> like way more than you need.
>
> Cyclone is probably as cheap as you're going to get
> for that kind of
> density, assuming you want it now -- if you're
> looking at MP in '04
> Xilinx Spartan-3 might be cheaper. If you can
> squeeze your design into
> an EP1C4F324C8 (about 200,000 gates) you can get
> them for $20 in small
> quantities (larger quantities are of course
> cheaper.) (Prices from
> www.arrow.com.)
>
> That's a much smaller FPGA, but probably would fit a
> simple CPU+Ether+USB.
>
> -hpa
>
>
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