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"Microsemi is currently crowdfunding the HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board on Crowd Supply for $1,999 for just the board and $2,998 for a bundle package that fea
by analognoise 8y ago
"Microsemi is currently crowdfunding the HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board on Crowd Supply for $1,999 for just the board and $2,998 for a bundle package that features both the Unleashed and Expansion together with delivery (free for the US, $40 and up worldwide) beginning on May 30th."
For $895 you can get a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU104 Evaluation Kit, which will stomp all over this board's face.
The kit comes with the Microsemi GOLD software...for a year. The Xilinx kit comes with a license that is simply locked to the device (iirc).
What a terrible joke; it would be much more reasonable to buy a more capable FPGA development system and throw a RISC-V into that (a KCU116 is ~3K and is light years ahead of anything from Microsemi).