Mini-Mig 2

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alexh wrote:
There is also a new FPGA board being designed by long term FPGA Guru from FPGA-Arcade. Do a search in these forums for MikeJ's posts.

FPGA-Arcade has caught my eye :-)

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freqmax wrote:
New Xilinx super chip :-)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080331/aqm029a.html?.v=7

65nm Virtex-5 FPGA, 2x PowerPC 440, 32kB instruction & 32 kB data cache, SERDES, GTX High Speed Transceivers 6.5Gbps, 190 GMACs DSP performance, 384 DSP slices, 16.5 Mb of internal memory.

Supports: XAUI, Fibre Channel, SONET, Serial RapidIO, PCI Express® 1.1, 2.0, Interlaken etc..

Could be something to drool over in a minimig2..

165 USD in 1000 qty (or hit digikey..).

No way could anyone justify a run of a 1000 FPGA boards for the Amiga community... Also, if the FPGA costs that much, by the time we get down to the consumer level, the board will cost well over $300...

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A6000 wrote:

OEM's should bite the bullet and produce them in batches of 1000.

Why should the OEM take that kind of risk? There is no way they could sell 1000 boards at $300 each... I'm having a hard time justifying the actually quite reasonable cost of a MiniMig...

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A6000 wrote:

bloodline wrote:
Why should the OEM take that kind of risk? There is no way they could sell 1000 boards at $300 each... I'm having a hard time justifying the actually quite reasonable cost of a MiniMig...

They want to make a reasonable to large profit, they cannot do that unless they sell a lot of boards, batches of 1000 gets lower component costs and enough boards to make their profit.

The high cost of a minimig is because their production quantities are too small.

But if they can't sell 1000, and to be realistic, they can't... then  the will lose more money than they could ever make.

Acube got it right with the MiniMig.