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Suppose I wanted to get started with FPGAs for purpose of computation (no interest in control or actuation of sensors/devices). What would be the best starting
by fixxer 12y ago
Suppose I wanted to get started with FPGAs for purpose of computation (no interest in control or actuation of sensors/devices). What would be the best starting board for less than $300?
I'm not a student, but I can probably find one if your suggestion is a student dev board.
- charlesnw 12y agoI've recently purchased the parallela board: http://www.parallella.org/ http://www.parallella.org/ It's got USB/ethernet/arm cpu , and has been incorporated into numerous other projects. It's ~$100.00 USD.
- sitkack 12y agoI second the parallella, not only does it have an FPGA, an arm core and a massively parallel cpu. So much to play with and still running Linux so the workflow is super smooth.
- wmf 12y agoProbably the Zedboard.
- sklogic 12y agohttp://valentfx.com/logi-pi/ http://valentfx.com/logi-pi/ (or logibone) is reasonably good, it's a Spartan6 LX9, easily programmable via SPI, and you can communicate with your design using the same SPI, easily clocked up to 30mbps. For bigger designs (e.g., a full OpenRISC SoC fits, with ethernet and VGA and all that) you can use Digilent Atlys board, it's cheap for students (although communicating with it is a bit more complicated).
- jamieiles 12y agoThe Terasic series are great, especially if you aren't too fussed about peripherals on the board. The DE0-nano has a decent sized FPGA and SDRAM for less than $100. There is also a SoC variant of this board coming soon with an integrated ARM subsystem.