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I agree, it's one of the factors that tipped me into pre-ordering (no word on my delivery yet though!)

There doesn't appear to be that much spare capacity, at least on the 7010's FPGA, around 2k cells IIRC? Certainly won't be creating a bitcoin miner in that :-)

Still the most interesting bit of hardware to come down the pipe yet.

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"There doesn't appear to be that much spare capacity, at least on the 7010's FPGA, around 2k cells IIRC? Certainly won't be creating a bitcoin miner in that :-)"

Depends on whether you'd like to use the Epiphany chip or not, as the FPGA logic used to interface with the Epiphany can be used for your own projects too (albeit with the catch that you lose the ability to access the full potential of the Epiphany chip). I'd be interested in using the Parallella board as a cheap Zynq dev board.

I think the hdmi implementation takes up most of the fpga, the epiphany interface footprint is quite small.

Good to know. I'm surprised they've gone down that route, suppose they're got to cut costs somewhere.

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