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The downside of the DE2 boards is that they're really stinking expensive if you don't qualify for the academic pricing. I'd love to have a go at Verilog and/or
by rwg 13y ago
The downside of the DE2 boards is that they're really stinking expensive if you don't qualify for the academic pricing.
I'd love to have a go at Verilog and/or VHDL, but I'm turned off by all of the sub-$100 FPGA dev boards because they basically just break out all of the FPGA's I/O pins to 0.1" headers and leave doing anything useful (as far as I/O goes) as an exercise for the reader.
- daniel-cussen 13y agoThere's the Mojo at kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1106670630/mojo-digital-design-for-the-hobbyist http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1106670630/mojo-digital-...
- duskwuff 13y ago…which only has a single button for input, eight LEDs for output, and a couple comm lines with the AVR. Everything else is just broken out to headers.
- snom380 13y agoHow about this? http://dx.com/p/fpga-ask2ca-8-diy-learning-development-board-blue-black-217979 http://dx.com/p/fpga-ask2ca-8-diy-learning-development-board...
- zhemao 13y agoYou could also try the DE2's "little brothers", the DE1 and DE0, which cost considerably less but have less logic elements, DSP blocks, and peripherals.
- 8note 13y agoDesign wise, a $100 FPGA board with a bunch of peripherals won't actually be able to run many of them at once. I have however designed a ~ $150 or so board (for prototyping) that has 10 bidirectional serial ports, a fast USB 2.0 port, and 20-30 general IO on 2mm headers, and runs on either a high or low precision 27MHz clock. The rev 2 one also has an ethernet port, a TiWi module, and a RAM chip, and a better/cheaper clock, but those features add on a bunch of cost. Connecting the RAM makes for a much more expensive pcb.