I imagine the FPGA alone, without the ancillary stuff will be somewhat cheaper (nope, I checked...not much cheaper...DigiKey has the Xylinx Artix-7 in single quantity for $256). I'm not an expert on these things, so maybe I'm looking at the wrong parts.
I just recall looking up what it would cost to run it today would cost, and thinking, "I'll just wait until they ship it all in a nice C65 style case".
It looks like they're going for an FPGA that has 512K+ of RAM directly on board. That's really expensive and I note that even the Altera stuff is in the same range of price. That's a poor design decision.
4Mb SRAMs are something like $10 with a 10nS access time.
I imagine the FPGA alone, without the ancillary stuff will be somewhat cheaper (nope, I checked...not much cheaper...DigiKey has the Xylinx Artix-7 in single quantity for $256). I'm not an expert on these things, so maybe I'm looking at the wrong parts.
I just recall looking up what it would cost to run it today would cost, and thinking, "I'll just wait until they ship it all in a nice C65 style case".
Here's the discussion about the size of it: http://mega65.net/fpga-development-boards