FPGA BOARD FOR NEWBIE TO FPGA

Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:55 am   

Hi all

I ned an FPGA bord to practice FPGA with VHDL .

That board will hopefully serve me in my first "real" payed FPGA
design projects.

Can you offer me a not so expensive board please ?

Thanks in advance

EC

Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:19 pm   

On Feb 2, 7:55 am, TheRightInfo <therighti...@gmail.com> wrote:

Its not that simple. different projects will require different FPGAs,
different complexities, different features etc. So unless you plan on
getting paid to do pretty simple designs, you cant really get away
with a single board.

Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:33 am   

I can recommend one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/280608972510

and one of these to program it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/170576125417

All the software to do stuff is available online free. The FPGA itself is low-end, but that will probably only be a limitation for big designs.

Note that this board doesn't come with any peripherals (like audio outputs, tv outputs, sd card slots, ethernet, etc.) - you'll need to find a more expensive board for that.