I'm still fairly new to FPGA stuff (been doing it for about 3 years but haven't done any big projects yet), but I absolutely love my SP3Dev board: http://www.ce

I'm still fairly new to FPGA stuff (been doing it for about 3 years but haven't done any big projects yet), but I absolutely love my SP3Dev board: http://www.celeritous.com/estore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=16 http://www.celeritous.com/estore/index.php?main_page=product... Had it for about a year and a half, works like a charm. Xilinx also had a kit for $100 (maybe $150) that had a Spartan 2 and a CoolRunner II board, which was great in the early days. I think it's since been superseded by a Spartan 3 kit, but I don't know the pricing.