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From: Gunnar Dahlgren<gunnar.dahlgren@a...>
Date: Tue May 30 11:05:54 CEST 2006
Subject: [oc] Development board for OpenSPARC
Fabrizio Fazzino wrote:
> Many thanks Gunnar,
> I found your informations very useful.
> I just had to note that the cheapest board based
> upon a 200K Virtex-4 device has a cost of 8,000 US$
> or so.
Yes, for these very large FPGAs you'll probably end up spending that
kind of money. I did a survey a little more than a year ago, and at the
time I would have had to pay around $3500 for one XC2V6000 FPGA (about
the largest available back then). And that's only the FPGA, no board.
And the XC4V200 seems to be about twice the size of XC2V6000. Of course
prices come down over time, but anyway those FPGAs are still very
expensive animals.
Regards
Gunnar
>
> Cheers,
> Fabrizio
>
>
> Gunnar Dahlgren wrote:
>> Check out The Dini group, http://www.dinigroup.com
>> They have a range of boards based on Xilinx/Altera, and for being in
>> the "ASIC prototyping" arena their prices are quite affordable (the
>> cost of their boards are like "the cost of the FPGAs plus some
>> margin", as opposed to some of their competitors that charge an order
>> of magnitude more).
>>
>> Compared to the competition they are quite much "do it yourself", ie
>> they don't supply a lot of flashy software to help you make the boards
>> do something useful.
>>
>> Our neighbours Hardi electronics, http://www.hardi.se, also have some
>> V4 boards that probably would work for you.
>>
>> A good starting point for finding these and others is Synplicity's
>> web: http://www.synplicity.com/partners/pip/index.html
>>
>> Best regards
>> Gunnar Dahlgren
>> Axis Communications AB, Sweden
>
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