Cheap FPGA's

[Ed]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also, do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

Thanks,

 

[Leon Heller]

"Ed" <Ed@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also,
do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

I don't think you will find any current FPGAs that cheap unless you buy lots
of them. I bought some Altera Cyclone EP1C3T100C8 chips for prototyping
recently from Arrow UK for 8.13 GBP each (plus carriage and VAT). I've often
seen older devices for sale cheaply on eBay.

Leon

 

[Simon]

Ed wrote:

Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also, do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

Thanks,

Look on www.rswww.com. This link

http://rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/browse/Module.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0353366949.1090426930@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchadcmdgfghjkcfngcfkmdgkldfhl.0&cacheID=uknetscape&3267879749=3267879749&catoid=-95599411

might not work because of their session thing, but there are some
(older) FPGA's on there for < Ł5.

Simon

 

[Dave Garnett]

Something like a Xilinx Spartan IIE XC2S50 is Ł22-35 from RS, Ł6-83 from
Digikey !! The Digikey price includes duty, but not shipping (Ł12) or a
'handling charge' (Ł10 if order total < Ł75). Neither price includes VAT.

If you wanted something a bit bigger, an XC2S200 is Ł42-31 (RS) or Ł14-11
(Digikey) !

I have had excellent service from DigiKey (and, to be fair, from RS most of
the time ...)

Dave


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Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also,
do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

Thanks,

 

[fabbl]

What do you want them for? Are you building a run of boards?

BTW: Xilinx has a $99 spartan 3 development board.

"Ed" <Ed@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also,
do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

Thanks,

 

[Ben Twijnstra]

Hi Ed,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also,
do you know any suppliers in the UK?

If you don't need to get your hands on an actual piece of silicon
immediately, take a look at Altera's MAX2 family. Essentially it's an SRAM
FPGA with built-in config memory. The first engineering samples appear to
be out, but it might be a few months until volume production. I've heard
they are pretty attractively priced.

http://www.altera.com/max2

Best regards,



Ben

 

[Wim Ton]

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also,
do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

There are regularly batches of Altera MAX7xxxx on Ebay for about Ł1/device.
As they are not S sevices, you need a special programmer

Wim

 

[Kolja Sulimma]

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Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean Ł5 or less. Also, do
you know any suppliers in the UK?

If you do not require large quantities only CPLD are available in that
quantity.
(Even a XC2S15-5VQ100C costs 10$ if you buy only a few pieces)

CPLDs start from approximately 1GBP and are available in the UK from
digikey and other stores as.

If it is for a hobby project that does not need an ongoing supply for
chips I still have a surplus of 10 pieces XC4010XL and 180 pieces
XC4013XL that I would sell to you for 5GBP each.
I also have software that supports these chips.

If you need only a single prototype you should buy a low cost
development board from www.trenz-electronic.de or one of its US
competitors like xess or digilent.

Kolja Sulimma

 

[Kolja Sulimma]

news@sulimma.de (Kolja Sulimma) wrote in message

If you do not require large quantities only CPLD are available in that
quantity.

Ooops. Should have been:
"If you do not require large quantities only CPLD are available for that price."

Kolja Sulimma