Timeline for Why are FPGAs so expensive?
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| Jan 21 at 10:11 | answer | added | vjalle | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 20 at 22:57 | answer | added | Chester Gillon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 20 at 21:27 | answer | added | jimc | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 2, 2020 at 22:54 | comment | added | copper.hat | This is just basic engineering economics, fpgas do not have the volume needed to hit a lower price point. | |
| Nov 11, 2018 at 9:38 | vote | accept | betontalpfa | ||
| S Nov 8, 2018 at 23:58 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2018 at 20:25 | comment | added | user16222 | @DonFusili as someone who works with FPGA's and a few others... fpga's and ethernet switches can be comparable since the Igloo2 series of FPGA's were developed in partnership with Cisco for some of their higher end switches ;) | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 19:26 | answer | added | J... | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Nov 8, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | betontalpfa | I choose ETH switches because the price of an FPGA highly depends on the transceiver count and performance. And ETH switches has also several transceiver, however they're price is not rising as much. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 9:23 | comment | added | Agent_L | Sorry to be harsh but: "A chip that can do everything is more expensive than a chip that can do only 1 thing". How's that even a question? | |
| S Nov 8, 2018 at 9:14 | history | suggested | Niteesh Shanbog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2018 at 1:12 | comment | added | user71659 | And if you're comparing cheap Ethernet switches, Xilinx themselves show implementation on a $50 low-end Spartan, not their mid-range Kintex line. Besides, high-end Ethernet switches are not available from Mouser, check Avnet. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 0:15 | comment | added | user71659 | All vendors offer a free tier of FPGA tools, and all of the paid versions are a fraction of the price you'd pay for a full ASIC suite like Synopsys. So a lot of the cost of developing tools are most definitely included in the price of the hardware. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackElectronix/status/1060321101706903552 | ||
| Nov 7, 2018 at 23:39 | answer | added | user154136 | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 13:33 | comment | added | DonFusili | As someone that works with both FPGAs and ethernet switches: why are those your two datapoints? | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 13:22 | comment | added | asdfex | I don't get the comparison. Fpga cost anywhere between 80 cents and 50000$ - depending on size and features. Ethernet switches start at 20 Dollar and go up at least to severl hundred thousand dollar, ahain depending on size and features. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 13:22 | answer | added | Tom Carpenter | timeline score: 23 | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 11:58 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Have you ever looked into a high end FPGA and all the features it offers? It is far from trivial to make it all work well together and anticipate the possible interactions. A similarily complex ASIC is also expensive as hell in the same numbers, the point where ASICs become cheaper is when are sold in the many millions. And your comparison is quite unfair because ethernet switches generally do not contain nearly as much complexity as an FPGA with all the PLL and signal conditioning and thousands of GPIO pins. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 11:55 | answer | added | Dave Tweed | timeline score: 65 | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 11:53 | comment | added | Anonymous | I think someone have made Ph.D. thesis in business science on the subject. It is not tech question, it is more business question involving tech comparison of apples with oranges. The main rule is - development tools (products) are always more expensive than consumer products - for various reasons, from revenue/cost estimation, and market demand, and availability of competing (functional) products. | |
| Nov 7, 2018 at 11:49 | history | asked | betontalpfa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |