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| Chris56000:
Hi! I was looking at the parts list for the Programmable 405–Line TV Standards Converter, this needs an EP4CE6E22C8N in qfp44, and I was flabbergasted at some of the eBay prices – £250–£700 per chip each!!! Are we ever going to see an end to this nonsense? Chris Williams |
| dmills:
FPGAs are generally painful at the moment, Altera more so the Xilinx but we are getting 9 month lead times on Zynq 7030 and just plain forget about Spartan 6, those are basically unobtanium. I am not at all surprised that an old Cyclone IV is only available from the scalpers. |
| tom66:
We've seen up to 24 months lead time on Zynq 7010's. The market is really weird right now. |
| thm_w:
You know how to sort by price right? The cheapest one is $50. About the same on aliexpress. |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: dmills on April 13, 2022, 08:53:23 pm ---FPGAs are generally painful at the moment, Altera more so the Xilinx but we are getting 9 month lead times on Zynq 7030 and just plain forget about Spartan 6, those are basically unobtanium. --- End quote --- My guess is that Spartan 6 is never coming back. (Nor are Spartan 3/3A/3AN, if you have designs that use them.) I have a Lattice MachXO2 part designed in for something right now and I haven't pulled the trigger on boards because I don't know if those parts will ever come back. I have exactly two of them on the shelf. |
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