If you are not sure, you need it, you don’t. Development in low level languages is different paradigm than microcontroller. You can download Xilinx IDE and just

If you are not sure, you need it, you don’t. Development in low level languages is different paradigm than microcontroller. You can download Xilinx IDE and just simulate some code, that would be enough to know if you want to continue. Digilent is a good provider of hardware: https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-development-boards-kits-from-digilent/ https://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-development-boards-kits-f... If you like Intel (Altera), grab some board from Terasic.com. The 2 are popular and there’s every possible question asked or described in their blogs. There might be cheaper boards or some non-vendor IDEs, but good support and available information is crucial in your learning phase.