Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?

[Christian Leber]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:

> I've just had a discussion with our senior ASIC designer, and we came up 
> with ball-park numbers for the cost of a first run of boards in a 
> quantity of 1000.
> 
> FPGA              Anywhere from $50 to $500, depending on logic area

About what FPGA are you thinking?
And you have to add the cost for PCI express support... will PCI express
even work on such a small FPGA?

Regards
Christian Leber

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