Huh? There's loads of cheap dev kits for a few 10's of bucks on eBay. Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALTERA-FPGA-Cyslonell-EP2C5T144-Minimum-System-Learning-

Huh? There's loads of cheap dev kits for a few 10's of bucks on eBay. Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALTERA-FPGA-Cyslonell-EP2C5T144-Minimum-System-Learning-Development-Board-/401255830236?var=&hash=item5d6cb612dc:m:m-tMy5MOZfxAvfiGVkWVMGg http://www.ebay.com/itm/ALTERA-FPGA-Cyslonell-EP2C5T144-Mini... This uses the EP2C5T144. Some basic getting started info here: http://www.leonheller.com/FPGA/FPGA.html http://www.leonheller.com/FPGA/FPGA.html [Leon Heller] You can run a free copy of Quartus and use it to run Verilog / VHDL cpus, or anything else you want to do. Same applies to the Xilinx FPGAs. A really cool example project: http://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html http://excamera.com/sphinx/fpga-j1.html