FS: Lot of 60 XCV1000 FPGAs

Ram,

First, I understand your situation and solidate with you.

Second, despite that DigiKey list those FPGAs for such high price, which may be a bit old (?), the same devices from Virtex-II family are much cheaper than the ones you have been screwed up with, if you check with the distributor. Check out also the prices for similar devices, so that you would not be screwed up with the offer...

best of luck

Vladislav

Thank you.

I understand.

Two or three other people also wrote me and told me that these parts are out of date and that there are newer parts which are cheaper, therefore I would probably not get very much per device.

As I said, I simply wish to recover what I can. Therefore, as long as the offer isn't insulting (such as 50 cents per chip), I would still entertain it.

Thank you all for your kindness.

Ram.

Your best bet may be to ebay the lot. The XCV1000-4's are the oldest of the virtex line. The price you quoted is close to the price Xilinx asked when these were the latest and greatest (btw, the 1000's were the biggest in that family). That family has been superceded several times over (virtexE, then virtex2 then virtex2pro and now virtex4), and even the low cost Spartan3 line now reaches this 1M gate density, and will significantly outperform it at a greatly reduced cost. BTW,, Digi-key's chip prices for Xilinx have historically been way higher than you can get the chips from just about any place else.

I agree with everyone else and you are unlikely to get much for these. Spartan-3 that we use a lot of are broadly similar in performance to the 1M gate mentioned. The equivalent S3 is about 1/50, or less, of the figure you mentioned.

Your only hope is to find a very long life design, still in manufacture, and still using them. Not easy to do and then you get a whole load of questions on where they came from etc etc. At best you will sell them at a significant discount at worst there is a good chance you won't find a buyer at all.

John Adair Enterpo>