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Intel Stratix 10

• aspenmayer 6y ago
  Can you say more about why this one is the one? Is it better in quantitative ways or ease of use than competitors? Cheaper or more reliable? Etc
  • mhh__ 6y ago
    Stratix 10 is an absolutely enormous FPGA (10FLOPS) so I'm guessing wow-factor rather than ease of use.
    • aspenmayer 6y ago
      Oh wow, I had no idea they were that advanced. How much do these go for secondhand?
      • pjc50 6y ago
        There is no sensible secondhand market for things like this; it will be embedded in someone's board. And there aren't many about to start with. Sometimes people are lucky enough to find decent FPGAs in scrap, but it's like panning for gold.
        • lukego 6y ago
          I've recently bought second-hand Xilinx FPGAs on Ebay for $250 each with list price of $3500. They come on boards that have an unidentified manufacturing fault. Salvaging and reusing the chips seems realistic using a budget vapor phase soldering setup (not attempted yet) but the challenge for me is designing or otherwise acquiring suitable PCBs to put them onto. I'm told that you can potentially find suitable PCBs on Aliexpress but I haven't looked into this in detail yet. In other words, there doesn't seem to be much demand in the secondhand market, and you can potentially use that in your favor to take advantage of supply selling at steep discounts.
        • corty 6y ago
          (De)soldering FPGAs is also very intricate, very high number of pins, high pin density make for a high error rate and low to no chance of simple rework. Also, the need for boards with a lot of layers to get that high pin count and density out from under the chip. It is easier, faster and cheaper to start from one of the available devel boards and maybe even use them as production components for small batches