I work for a smallish company that makes chips. FPGA is hugely cheaper than an ASIC for the quantities you are talking about. A "shuttle", meaning small quantity of sample chips on a die shared with other companies, still costs tens of thousands of dollars. And I think that my company only gets on the shuttle runs because we also do mass production runs; these shuttles are ways to help the customers, not really a moneymaking product in itself. If you only have a few chips you need, you will probably have to pay more.
You really, truly need to go FPGA. You can probably get a board with a USB interface (like a Cypress EZ-USB or some such) and an FPGA on it for under $1000, perhaps quite a bit under $1000. If you want a bunch of FPGAs, you will have to spend quite a bit more, you will probably need a custom circuit board. Those aren't nearly as expensive as they used to be, but they still aren't real cheap. (Then again, you'd need a custom board for your ASICs too!) On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 16:07 -0500, Joshua Shriver wrote: > Ok so I've written a Go based processor in VHDL and seeking someplace > *preferably cheap* to burn it into hardware. Any recommendations? > Oh and btw did I mention CHEAP.. this is purely a 100% hobby and I'm > poor. So *cheap* is probably more important than time and output as > long as it acts like the VHDL that I wrote. I dont mind if it takes 6 > months to fabricate as long as they can do it for a lot cheaper than > anything I've seen online and in low quantities. I'm looking for 1-10 > max quantity. It is designed to be paralleized, but quantities are > still low due to cost. > > Oh and cheaper the better ;) > > -Josh >
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