On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote:
There are also Xilinx parts that have hard ARM cores in them too.
Sadly the Zynq chips are absurdly expensive compared to having otherwise
equivalent FPGA and ARM SoC resources in two chips. The only reasons to use
those are if you (1) need higher bandwidth between the ARM and the FPGA
fabric than you can get with two chips, (2) don't have enough board space
for two chips, or (3) have too much money.
One of my clients will be switching from Virtex 6 to Zynq on the basis of
reasons 2 and 3.
Eric