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The Intel Direct RF FPGAs are pretty spectacular. They report 64GSPS and 25GHz instantaneous bandwidth directly into FPGA fabric (no JESD) which greatly exceeds
by amirhirsch 4y ago
The Intel Direct RF FPGAs are pretty spectacular. They report 64GSPS and 25GHz instantaneous bandwidth directly into FPGA fabric (no JESD) which greatly exceeds any other competitors’ IC offerings on the market. I wonder what they will cost: if their high-end 8ch device is <$16K then they will annihilate the competition (I’m able to get $2K per channel for large multichannel direct RF systems 1Ghz instantaneous all the way up to x-band)
- brooksbp 4y agoI can only imagine how long it will take the fitter to pnr these insanely wide busses. Maybe a 13th gen CPU overclocked to 8GHz would be handy.
- buildbot 4y agoDays at least. P&R is NP hard I believe. Force directed placement or simulated annealing is slow and random :/
- jjoonathan 4y agoXilinx keeps advertising the bejeesus out of their AI p&r, but I haven't touched these tools in years -- how much do the claims translate to reality?
- rowanG077 4y agoConsidering my experience with Xilinx, the more they advertise it the harder it sucks.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoXilinx design tools are some of the buggiest pieces of software known to humankind. Altera(Intel) not far behind.
- reportingsjr 4y agoThis applies to basically all electronics design tools. Insanely expensive ($5-100k per seat per year is common) and insanely buggy. Altium, considered one of the best PCB cad tools, hard crashes for me every hour or two of design work I do.