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Title: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: wilfred on April 12, 2018, 12:44:08 pm

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Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: ehughes on April 12, 2018, 12:54:52 pm

Chuck them if you value your time.

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: james_s on April 12, 2018, 06:03:31 pm

They might be useful for soldering practice, or someone's artsy-fartsy project, but I doubt they will be useful as FPGAs. They are likely less capable than many CPLDs on the market now.

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: David Chamberlain on April 13, 2018, 02:11:01 am

They must have known what year you were going to ask this.

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: pigrew on April 13, 2018, 03:26:59 am

Sell them on evilBay? It looks like a few have sold this year for about $15 each.

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: westfw on April 13, 2018, 06:39:17 am

I have a bunch of xc3142 and xc3042 awaiting a similar decision (for well past a decade, now...)  :-(

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: mikeselectricstuff on April 13, 2018, 10:03:57 am

Stick them on ebay - there may be people who want to keep old equipment running. Waste of time trying to use them yourself. Even getting devtools running is likely to be a challenge - dos, extended memory, dongles etc.

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: james_s on April 13, 2018, 05:03:52 pm

Maybe just put the whole lot on as one deal with a minimum bid just high enough to cover the fees? Or put them as a fixed price BIN listing for some low price and give it a couple weeks before you chuck them.

Title: Re: Xilinx XC2018. Useful or rubbish?
Post by: westfw on April 14, 2018, 08:43:43 am

Also, I have XCV1600-8FG1156 chips that I've mentioned before.  Worth about $3k each, back when they were current (2003?)
34992 logic cells.  1156 ball BGAs.  Even given tools I couldn't do anything with them :-(
Alas, I feel funny selling stuff (even at giveaway prices) that I've dumpster-dived at work.  Perhaps stuff "times out" eventually and it would be OK...