1 Sep
2010
1 Sep
'10
8:03 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
In the eval kits, the Spartan 6 kits seem to offer a
significantly
higher bang-for-the-buck than the Spartan 3 ones.
Certainly the Spartan-6 chips are far more cost effective than Spartan-3.
For eval boards, I'm not convinced that this is the case yet. There
aren't nearly as many inexpensive development boards for the -6 yet. I
haven't yet seen any inexpensive Spartan-6 boards that seem comparable
to the Digilent Spartan-3E or Spartan-3A boards, in terms of FPGA
capacity, on-board peripheral interfaces/connectors, and availability of
GPIO pins on connectors.
Eric