Xilinx 500k gate devices are $22 in unit quantities plus $1 for the external flash memory so that's a 200:1 ratio for space-based versus earth-based hardware.
73,
John KD6OZH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Assi Friedman" 4x1kx@iarc.org To: "'John B. Stephensen'" kd6ozh@comcast.net; "'Lyle Johnson'" kk7p@wavecable.com; k3io@verizon.net; "'EAGLE'" eagle@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 21:29 UTC Subject: RE: [eagle] Re: Flash-Based Rad-Tolerant FPGAs
It's more like $5k for the 600k gate device, and $10k for the 3,000k gate device. We should all expect a bulletin from Actel soon stating that the commercial ProASIC3 devices are *bad* for space use ;-) Assi
-----Original Message----- From: eagle-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:eagle-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of John B. Stephensen Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:02 PM To: Lyle Johnson; k3io@verizon.net Cc: 'EAGLE' Subject: [eagle] Re: Flash-Based Rad-Tolerant FPGAs
Samples of rad-hard PLLs from Peregrine are $500 each so small rad-hard FPGAs must be several thousand dollars each.
73
John KD6OZH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyle Johnson" kk7p@wavecable.com To: k3io@verizon.net Cc: "'EAGLE'" eagle@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 18:21 UTC Subject: [eagle] Re: Flash-Based Rad-Tolerant FPGAs
Good News! Any idea of the price for the price for flight-quality parts? I'm about to unveil my latest (for EAGLE@GEO) payload idea and