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Hi Kubik.

You can also find boards in http://www.xess.com/ Good prices.

Cheers,

Hernán Sánchez

"kubik" <[email protected]> escribió en el mensaje
news[email protected]. .
> Forgive me for these stupid questions, but i'm a beginner in this field.
>
> I was searching on the web a Xilinx virtex2 board for doing my first
> experience.
> I' ve found many boards on the xilinx on line store ( the
> HW-AFX family ) on the Avnet site ( ADS family ) and so on. But the prices
> of these boards are all more then one thousand of dollars.
>
> Are these prices so high because with them is sold the design software too
?
>
> If so, and if i want to build a system in fpga i must buy many of these
> boards, i don't need many copies of the design software. Are there others
> expensive boards that need only to be programmed and cost much less?
>
> What shoud be the orientative value for the cost for piece that i must
> sustain if i want to build a society that sells designs in FPGA?
>
> Thanks in advance
>

do more homework!

there are lots of boards with less than 1KUSD value

xilinx/digilent s3-200 is $99
new board with S3-1500 is coming (not announced) I would gess sub $249 price
for that
xess has s3-1000 board for $199
and there are quite manu more in around $199 price range
some v2-1000+ boards are also relativly cheap

the price sometimes includes xilinx EDK in case of -"MB" bundled packages
from avnet and memec

but lots of high end boards cost $5000+ with no bundled at all

Antti
you want to build a society? that would do what? interesting...




"kubik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]. .
> Forgive me for these stupid questions, but i'm a beginner in this field.
>
> I was searching on the web a Xilinx virtex2 board for doing my first
> experience.
> I' ve found many boards on the xilinx on line store ( the
> HW-AFX family ) on the Avnet site ( ADS family ) and so on. But the prices
> of these boards are all more then one thousand of dollars.
>
> Are these prices so high because with them is sold the design software too
?
>
> If so, and if i want to build a system in fpga i must buy many of these
> boards, i don't need many copies of the design software. Are there others
> expensive boards that need only to be programmed and cost much less?
>
> What shoud be the orientative value for the cost for piece that i must
> sustain if i want to build a society that sells designs in FPGA?
>
> Thanks in advance
>

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:28:28 +0100, "Antti Lukats"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>you want to build a society? that would do what? interesting...
>
>
>"kubik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news[email protected] ..
>> What shoud be the orientative value for the cost for piece that i must
>> sustain if i want to build a society that sells designs in FPGA?

maybe he means a company.

Forgive me for these stupid questions, but i'm a beginner in this field.

I was searching on the web a Xilinx virtex2 board for doing my first
experience.
I' ve found many boards on the xilinx on line store ( the
HW-AFX family ) on the Avnet site ( ADS family ) and so on. But the prices
of these boards are all more then one thousand of dollars.

Are these prices so high because with them is sold the design software too ?

If so, and if i want to build a system in fpga i must buy many of these
boards, i don't need many copies of the design software. Are there others
expensive boards that need only to be programmed and cost much less?

What shoud be the orientative value for the cost for piece that i must
sustain if i want to build a society that sells designs in FPGA?

Thanks in advance

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:52:05 +0000, mk wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:28:28 +0100, "Antti Lukats"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>you want to build a society? that would do what? interesting...
>>
>>
>>"kubik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news[email protected] ...
>>> What shoud be the orientative value for the cost for piece that i must
>>> sustain if i want to build a society that sells designs in FPGA?
>
> maybe he means a company.

Yes, i'm not american, but i think i mean a company.
I' m looking with interest at the new market of "domotic" and the embedded
systems that it could require

Thanks at all

You will find Virtex-II based boards relatively expensive. For cost it is
better to look at Spartan-3 based boards. Spartan-3 architecture is derived
from Virtex-II. We have offerings in this field as do many of our
competitors.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development
Board.
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk

"kubik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]. .
> Forgive me for these stupid questions, but i'm a beginner in this field.
>
> I was searching on the web a Xilinx virtex2 board for doing my first
> experience.
> I' ve found many boards on the xilinx on line store ( the
> HW-AFX family ) on the Avnet site ( ADS family ) and so on. But the prices
> of these boards are all more then one thousand of dollars.
>
> Are these prices so high because with them is sold the design software too
?
>
> If so, and if i want to build a system in fpga i must buy many of these
> boards, i don't need many copies of the design software. Are there others
> expensive boards that need only to be programmed and cost much less?
>
> What shoud be the orientative value for the cost for piece that i must
> sustain if i want to build a society that sells designs in FPGA?
>
> Thanks in advance
>

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:03:46 +0000, kubik <[email protected]> wrote:

>I was searching on the web a Xilinx virtex2 board for doing my first
>experience.
>I' ve found many boards on the xilinx on line store ( the
>HW-AFX family ) on the Avnet site ( ADS family ) and so on. But the prices
>of these boards are all more then one thousand of dollars.
>
>Are these prices so high because with them is sold the design software too ?

You should extend your search:

http://www.fpga-faq.com/FPGA_Boards.shtml



Philip Freidin
Fliptronics

Hernán Sánchez wrote:
> Hi Kubik.
>
> You can also find boards in http://www.xess.com/ Good prices.
>
> Cheers,


Ooh, yummy! I was hoping to find a Spartan 200k board with more than
1MB RAM than the Digilent board has.



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