how much costs the Artix 7 devices?

I would forget about using an Artix until next year as I cant see anyone
having them until then.

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> Thanks, this looks good. Just 2 EUR more expensive at Digikey than the
> Spartan 3, but more features. I think I'll use a 6SLX4.

Maybe You'd like to take Altera parts into consideration?

P.S. The project page is seems like half-lithuanian? :-)

scrts wrote:
>> Thanks, this looks good. Just 2 EUR more expensive at Digikey than the
>> Spartan 3, but more features. I think I'll use a 6SLX4.
> 
> Maybe You'd like to take Altera parts into consideration?

Any device which is cheaper than a Spartan 6 (I need at least 144 pins)?
I get the XC6SLX4-2TQG144C for EUR 9.89 from Digikey. Looks like the
cheapest Cyclone I with TQFP 144 costs EUR 9.96 at Altera, and it is
less powerful than the Spartan 6.

> P.S. The project page is seems like half-lithuanian? :-)

The menu and navigation? Looks like the site tries to localize it, it is
German for me. I hope you don't mean my not so good English :-)

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Frank Buss wrote:
>
> Any device which is cheaper than a Spartan 6 (I need at least 144 pins)?
> I get the XC6SLX4-2TQG144C for EUR 9.89 from Digikey. Looks like the
> cheapest Cyclone I with TQFP 144 costs EUR 9.96 at Altera, and it is
> less powerful than the Spartan 6.
>
The Lattice XO2's might also be a good fit, non-volatile (no boot rom needed).

The TQ100 pkg covers 256-2000 4-LUTs ( USD $4-$11 qty 1 @ DigiKey )
The TQ144 pkg covers 640-7000 4-LUTs ( USD $7-$14 qty 1 @ DigiKey )
http://www.latticesemi.com/products/cpld/machxo2/index.cfm

Less block RAM & no DSP's compared to similar normalized LUT-count S6 parts;
Lattice's XP2 family includes DSP blocks in a TQ144 pkg.

Another thing I like about the Lattice parts is that their free 
Diamond tool includes the OEM version of Synplify.

Brian

Brian Davis wrote:
> The Lattice XO2's might also be a good fit, non-volatile (no boot rom needed).
> 
> The TQ100 pkg covers 256-2000 4-LUTs ( USD $4-$11 qty 1 @ DigiKey )
> The TQ144 pkg covers 640-7000 4-LUTs ( USD $7-$14 qty 1 @ DigiKey )
> http://www.latticesemi.com/products/cpld/machxo2/index.cfm
> 
> Less block RAM & no DSP's compared to similar normalized LUT-count S6 parts;
> Lattice's XP2 family includes DSP blocks in a TQ144 pkg.
> 
> Another thing I like about the Lattice parts is that their free 
> Diamond tool includes the OEM version of Synplify.

Looks interesting. I don't know Synplify, but a OEM version of Aldec
Active-HDL is integrated, too, which I've used sometime ago and which
was very good for debugging. And the 'C' parts need only one 3.3 V
supply voltage for core and IO, so I don't need another voltage
regulator (and power supply ramp rates requirements are very easy to
fulfil: 0.01 - 100 mV/μs).

I've installed the Diamond IDE and it is very similar to Xilinx ISE. My
current design, but with a 1 MB external SRAM instead of 128 kB, fits in
125 LUTs and the VHDL file compiled without changes (just some more
warnings about unused pins).

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