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The cheapest FPGA+MCU integration in one chip I ve ever seen in China

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client:
AGM FPGA is a new brand founded in China. which, it integrates an FPGA and an MCU into just one package,and the stange part is, the MCU is compatibe with STM32F4 and the FPGA is compatibe with some Altera/intel models and can be developed by Quartus.

you may check this link on Chinese demestic website TaoBao:
https://shop33530563.taobao.com/?spm=pc_detail.29232929/evo401271b517998.shop_block.dshopinfo.14d97dd6S6ITrG

the official website is:
http://www.agmsemi.com/index.html

ataradov:
This is cool, but won't be of much use. Documentation is virtually non-existent. And Taobao requires registration to even see the listing, so getting that device outside of China would be next to impossible.

So, it will remain a cool curiosity.

Plus the need to use Quartus for non-Altera parts is questionable.

tycz:
I was looking at the Chinese FPGA market a couple of months ago and did see this company. The hardware looks interesting but the software is no good. Their Supra software allows three FPGA synthesis options - Quartus, Synplicity, or Yosys. Using Quartus this way violates the license agreement. Synplicity is too expensive to consider (something like $20k). The version of Yosys in their software package couldn't synthesise the two projects I tried. Documentation is awful. The docs are at  www.tcx-micro.com  delivered blog style. The info you need to start is spread out over many articles, not organised in a coherent way.

The parts are actually very easy to buy, compared to those of other companies, and very cheap too. But without real supporting software, who would buy them outside of China?

brucehoult:
How cheap?

How do they compare to the GOWIN FPGA SoC chips with RISC-V cores?

tycz:

--- Quote from: brucehoult on August 01, 2024, 05:09:41 am ---How cheap?

How do they compare to the GOWIN FPGA SoC chips with RISC-V cores?


--- End quote ---

The price is $1-2 depending on package, MCU configuration. These are low end parts - 2000 logic elements, not really comparable the Gowin Arora series. More like Cypress PSOC.

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