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No hard core is a bummer. I want to see the first party SOM.
by willis936 3y ago
No hard core is a bummer. I want to see the first party SOM.
- dfox 3y agoYou mean something like this: https://www.amd.com/en/products/system-on-modules/kria.html https://www.amd.com/en/products/system-on-modules/kria.html Spartan is the glue-logic family for applications that either do not require any kind of CPU core at all or where some simple soft-core (MicorBlaze, x51, hand crafted state machine...) suffices.
- willis936 3y agoYes I do mean the Kria line, but one for this new Spartan Ultrascale+. I already buy packaged versions of $30 FPGAs because it alleviates most of the integration effort.
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- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWhy? They have a different line for that. Not worth wasting expensive silicone die area for something a lot of customers or projects won't need.
- willis936 3y agoBecause a hard core is much smaller and efficient than a soft core. Any small edge application you want to run embedded code on (which I argue is most all) will now need an external hard core or use a lot of precious PL resources and power for a soft core.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThey already sell other models with hard cores for those who need that since not all applications do.
- duskwuff 3y ago> No hard core is a bummer. The Zynq product family already exists.