I wonder how the economics work for this - it's great to have cheap FPGAs like this, but I suspect Renesas will need to produce a lot of IPs for people to use o

I wonder how the economics work for this - it's great to have cheap FPGAs like this, but I suspect Renesas will need to produce a lot of IPs for people to use on these devices. With a cheap FPGA device like this you need quite big scale before this starts to beat a more expensive chip since you're going to have to going to have to get an FPGA developer to write your IP and that's going to be atleast in the region of tens of thousands in dev cost. It was always the problem that the big fpga companies ran into - at small scale the development costs are prohibitive, at large scale the unit costs lend themselves to custom asic production. The result is you're constantly chasing this mid-scale niche, pushing at the boundaries by pushing your process advantage vs custom ASIC and by pushing the tooling to lower the cost of development - neither of which proved to be very successful.