Altera (the other major FPGA player) has one of these too (http://www.altera.com/devices/processor/arm/cortex-a9/m-arm-cortex-a9.html). It was announced about a month ago. Apparently they will be available in 2Q'12, and are as low as $15 depending on the volume and device. -- Glenn Henshaw Waterloo, Canada Email: thraxisp4 [ at ] mac [ dot ] com On 2011-12-23, at 6:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > this might be the new toy for next year: > > http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Xilinx-Zynq7000/ > > "Xilinx announced its first application processors in the form of > Linux-ready, dual-core Cortex-A9 system-on-chip (SoCs) that offer FPGA > functionality. The Zynq-7000 devices integrate dual 800MHz ARM > Cortex-A9 cores with 28nm-fabricated, low-power programmable logic > derived from the Xilinx Artix7 (Zynq-7010 and Zynq-7020) and > higher-end Kintex-7 (Zynq-7030 and Zynq-7040) FPGA technologies." > > too many toys, too little brainpower. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux