The iCE40 from Lattice is pretty popular for its open source (reverse engineered) toolchain. As far as hand soldering an FPGA, you’re gonna have a hard time fi

The iCE40 from Lattice is pretty popular for its open source (reverse engineered) toolchain. As far as hand soldering an FPGA, you’re gonna have a hard time finding any that aren’t BGA simply because of all the IO. They exist, but probably not in dev board form as they’re really limited in IO and cells.