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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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