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by exmadscientist 2163 days ago
The XC7Z007S is $46 in volume at distributors (though with no volume discounts; Xilinx pricing is weird).

Zynq chips are beautiful parts. But they are not "low-cost drop-in" anything. They are chips that you can architect an entire system around and replace a dozen other chips with. I know; I've done it. (But they didn't bite on our proposal, so my sketched architecture remained just a detailed sketch.)