So is Xilinx working on another budget-line FPGA? Or are they intending that small V5 chips replace the Spartan line altogether? What's their next budget chip with the new LUT structure and when can I look for it?
According to Xilinx's website, the Spartan-3E line is for gate-centric uses and goes up to 1.2M gates. Yeah. Huge.
I just finished a project that uses 4.5M gates (so says the MRP) on each of eight 2v6000 chips. It's only using 1/3 the block RAM and none of the MUL blocks on any chip. It only accesses DRAM from one chip. I want that project on cheap hardware. What chips would you recommend for this? By cheap I mean $40/chip, not $2000/chip.