Alibaba cloud FPGA: the $200 Kintex UltraScale+
Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroduction#I was recently in the market for a new FPGA to start building my upcoming projects on.Due to the scale of my upcoming projects a Xilinx series 7 UltraScale+ FPGA of the Virtex family would be perfect, but a Kintex series FPGA will be sufficient for early prototyping. Due to not wanting to part ways with the eye watering amounts of money that is required for an Vivado enterprise edition license my choice was effectively narrowed to the FPGA chips available under the WebPack version of Vivado.Xilinx supported boards per Vivado editionUnsurprisingly Xilinx are well aware of how top of the range the Virtex series are, and doesn’t offer any Virtex UltraScale+ chips with the webpack license. That said, they do offer support for two very…
