[mati365]

What's special about this?

[hmry]

These chips usually cost $1k-$2k when bought new individually from the manufacturer

[stephen_g]

Yeah Xilinx’s pricing curve is incredibly steep. Probably makes sense since they’re used in things like defence (radar, electronic warfare) so they can sell them in low quantities for huge prices and people will still buy them.

But with decent volume they get pretty cheap - for example there are video converters they have FPGAs in them that you can buy for less than you can buy the FPGA part in single qty - which means the manufacturer of the device is getting the FPGA for 5-10% of list price.

[phendrenad2]

So people are going to desolder the chip? This doesn't seem very hobbyist-doable. Are there people out there who build products based on scrapped FPGAs from ebay?

[h33t-l4x0r]

Are we talking about physical products or cloud services?

[RossBencina]

Not only that, but you can develop for this particular model with the no-cost Vivado license.