On 2014-01-02 02:58, Eric Smith wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM, emanuel stiebler
<emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
> [Xilinx zynq] ... And they are pretty cheap, for
what they offer.
>> Nope.
OK, let's try again ;-)
If you compare what's inside of a zynq, and compare to to a solution
which is made out of a external ARM + FPGA attached to it, please
compare it to an at least ARTIX-7 series, and a dual core with a pretty
decent amount of peripherals. Then subtract the headaches of
constructing a decent bus between the two, and you probably know
why I think they are cheap.
If you don't need the performance at all, you probably get away with
much smaller FPGA & a cortex MCU, but it is getting very close in price.
Cheers