GRVI Phalanx joins The Kilocore Club

Post by quickben » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 1:17 AM UTC

Post by duskwuff » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 2:37 AM UTC

quickben wrote: post #2

If I'm not mistaken, the devices go for 5-6k for the eval kit?

Post by vvanders » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 3:10 AM UTC

Post by duskwuff » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 3:46 AM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #5

duskwuff wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. The Arty board (which ran 32 cores) is $99, though, which is actually a lot more interesting. http://store.digilentinc.com/arty-artix-7-fpga-development-b...

Is it better than the Zynq platform ? Parallella still sells SBC with a dual core arm + fpga for 100$ IIRC

Post by gamiecc » Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 4:15 AM UTC

duskwuff wrote: post #8

agumonkey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it better than the Zynq platform ? Parallella still sells SBC with a dual core arm + fpga for 100$ IIRC

Better for FPGA development. The FPGA on the Arty is slightly larger (28K -> 33K logic cells), and all peripherals, including memory, are connected directly to the FPGA instead of through the ARM SoC. Also, the I/O headers are omitted from the $99 Parallela board, so it's difficult to program. (No JTAG connector.)