Does anyone have large qty of fpga collecting dust?

senseless

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Quote from: thedatacare on April 12, 2017, 07:14:26 PM

I wonder what happened to all Butterflies.

Someone may have purchased those in bulk in Iceland or Washington state.

The BFLs were traded in for discounted ASICs. BFL probably took them, reballed the chips and sold them off.

I know there are still people around who have 100s of ztex, x6500, and icarus boards. I was trying to reach out to these people to see if they'd like to monetize their old boards.

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I wonder what happened to all Butterflies.

Someone may have purchased those in bulk in Iceland or Washington state.

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Ask around medical offices doing MRI and other high-end medical imaging procedures. Many of them have their machines down due to various technical and organizational issues. Those machines always have a cabinet-full of FPGAs for sensor data pre-processing. Communication with FPGAs would have to be done through JTAG, as they will not let you modify their hardware in hopes of re-selling it or putting it back to (medical) service.

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I managed a team who developed a X11 RTL firmware. While the X11 itself is too large to be usable in most commodity FPGA; some of the newer coins which are picking up steam are using algos contained within X11. Others are using variations which only require slight modifications to get running. We're looking at the possibility of leasing bitstreams to those who may be interested in monetizing hardware that is collecting dust.

Anything from a spartan 6 LX150 and up can be monetized.

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