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> I can't find a price, so I'm predicting that it will be over $1,000 Try 50x to 100x that at quantity=1. This is not a hobbyist device: this FPGA is the large
by adwn 3y ago
> I can't find a price, so I'm predicting that it will be over $1,000
Try 50x to 100x that at quantity=1. This is not a hobbyist device: this FPGA is the largest you can get on, and it's tailored to the needs of companies that spend 7-9 figures on the verification and validation of their ASIC projects.
> Maybe this is something new that finally manifests the original vision of what FPGAs could be.
Even small to mid-sized modern FPGAs have far surpassed the "original vision of what FPGAs could be".
- zackmorris 3y agoYou're right, and in fairness I haven't used an FPGA or VHDL since the 90s. I spent the 2000s in destitution and the 2010s catching up, getting the rug pulled out from under me every 10 years or so like everyone else as wealth inequality reached unbelievable levels. Even $1000 for a testing rig felt out of reach. I should probably start with an open source setup, but last I heard, pretty much all FPGAs had a proprietary layer like GPU drivers on Linux, which was such a huge turnoff that I never bothered proceeding further. If that's changed, I'm all ears!