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Oh this is very cool! The market deserves some competition.
by arcticbull 5y ago
Oh this is very cool! The market deserves some competition.
- CamperBob2 5y agoEspecially considering how fucked Xilinx and Altera customers are these days. Now's the best possible time for competitors to hit the market hard.
- lnsru 5y agoNor Lattice, nor these guys can compete with Xilinx and Altera (or AMD and Intel as they are called nowadays). Lattice’s portfolio ends where Xilinx starts. So absolutely no overlapping and therefore no competition.
- themulticaster 5y ago> Lattice’s portfolio ends where Xilinx starts. Sorry for nitpicking, but there is some overlap when looking at the high-end Lattice FPGA offerings, e.g. ECP3 with >500 IO and ~150k LUTs in its top configuration (the usual caveats apply regarding comparing LUT counts from different FPGA designs).
- m3kw9 5y agoLattice will go big on the LUT when their advant platform comes online
- lnsru 5y agoThanks, it is very promising indeed. Just found their press release.
- mastax 5y agoLooking on DigiKey there is almost no supply of the GreenPak devices that are being rebranded/supplanted. Which is a shame because these look really neat.
- shash 5y agoThese are 1-2k LUT devices. Even the smallest Spartan - XC7S6 - is 6K LUTs. It's not enough to even mildly inconvenience the leaders.
- AussieWog93 5y agoI don't see that necessarily as a negative. 50c FPGAs with 1k LUTs won't directly compete against Xilinx or Altera's flagship offerings (or in many cases even their low-end ones, as you rightly point out) - but it will create a new market for low-cost, low-power semi-complex custom glue logic.
- CuriousCosmic 5y agoI agree. There's so many little use cases where a tiny FPGA would fit in perfectly but the cost of the powerful mainline competition make it a non-starter. If these can stay cheap and continue to draw as low power as they do I can see them carving out a very nice and healthy niche in the space.
- shash 5y agoAgreed. There are lots of downstream applications where these could do a lot. I just meant, GP's point doesn't add up.
- arcticbull 5y agoI assume this is just their thin-edge product. Gotta start somewhere, and it may as well be carving out a new niche.
- RF_Savage 5y agoI see it more as competing with Lattice, Microchip and things like Intel MAX10.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoWhat is stopping you from using 16 of them? For maybe bit-slicing? The PCB-layout, routing/timing and EMF?