Cheap FPGA's

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might not work because of their session thing, but there are some (older) FPGA's on there for < £5.

Simon

Something like a Xilinx Spartan IIE XC2S50 is £22-35 from RS, £6-83 from Digikey !! The Digikey price includes duty, but not shipping (£12) or a 'handling charge' (£10 if order total < £75). Neither price includes VAT.

If you wanted something a bit bigger, an XC2S200 is £42-31 (RS) or £14-11 (Digikey) !

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

Dave

do

Hi,

Does anyone know of any cheap FPGA's? By cheap I mean £5 or less. Also, do you know any suppliers in the UK?

Thanks,

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

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

do

Hi Ed,

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.

Best regards,

Ben

do

There are regularly batches of Altera MAX7xxxx on Ebay for about £1/device. As they are not S sevices, you need a special programmer

Wim

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

Kolja Sulimma

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

Kolja Sulimma