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Exactly. These are far far away from cheap FPGAs, Spartan 6 chips are just old, but not cheap. When thinking about cheap FPGAs I imagine these cheap things from
by lnsru 7y ago
Exactly. These are far far away from cheap FPGAs, Spartan 6 chips are just old, but not cheap. When thinking about cheap FPGAs I imagine these cheap things from Lattice for interface bridging.
Cheap ARM SoCs were on ARM’s roadmap back then. Cortex A9 was huge innovation these days.
- tpmx 7y agoI guess they were thinking they'd be using very expensive FPGAs in the the first VC-funded iterations, and then move on to something cheaper. But they never got there... https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/11/pano-logic-shuts-down-leaving.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/2012/11/pano-logic-... "... the company had doubled or tripled its revenue every year since 2008, when it had about $1 million in sales. ... The company was backed by about $38 million in funding from investors including Goldman Sachs, ComVentures, Foundation Capital, Fuse Capital, and Mayfield Fund."
- panpanna 7y agoI think you are correct. Fpgas are often used as a stepping stone towards cheaper asic or hybrid solutions. asic requires a high volume and a working design, neither of which you have early in the project.