An impressive European FPGA platform - Cologne Chip CCGM1A1

Read with me: • a comfortable 324 ball 0.8 mm pitch BGA • 20,480 programmable elements (each with 8-input LUT-tree, 2x FF/Latches, 2-bit full-adder or 2x2-bit multiplier) – the biggest iCE40 has 7840 logic cells only • 5 Gbit/s SerDes • all GPIO support double data rate (DDR) • YOSYS compatible! https://colognechip.com/programmable-logic/gatemate-evaluation-board/
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Joseph Ogbonna
Joseph Ogbonna13mo ago
Wow
Umesh Lokhande
Umesh Lokhande13mo ago
Hi @Petr Dvořák GateMate FPGA, sounds cool! thank you very much for this information. I appreciate it! if you could share your thoughts about Cologne Chip AG, I mean just curiosity, a few things like the availability of evaluation kits, price comparison, quality of documentation, and user community. Since GateMate is relatively new, I hope for plenty of example codes for a quick start. Would like to hear your thoughts, thank you!
Petr Dvořák
Petr DvořákOP13mo ago
@Umesh Lokhande I did not study the devboard much. I was focused on the FPGA chip. The fabric of that chip is extensive. At least in when compared with the iCE40 fabric area.
techielew
techielew13mo ago
I tried to order a dev board but looks like they're out of stock 😞 I always wonder why some vendor in this low-mid-range class doesn't slap an Arm core into one of these devices like on the Zynq. Make all those LUTs accessible through the Arm toolchain and expose it to a ton more devs. What type of application are you considering this for, @Petr? Control? Connectivity? What would you do with that much logic?
Embedded Shiksha
Embedded Shiksha13mo ago
yes same for me they are out of stock
Petr Dvořák
Petr DvořákOP12mo ago
Thank you for asking, @techielew. I have studied those devices for a single reason–to be able to offer more services in more hardware development areas to my customers. You know the situation–each prospected customer asks whether I have experience with this and that. I don't want to lie so I work on it on my own–it's like sharpening of an axe.
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