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16 years ago

DE1 board vs Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit

I'm a lecturer at the Department of Electrical, Electronics, Automatic and Communications, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). For the digital electronic teaching, I would like to buy several d...
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16 years ago

Well I think the hardware differences aren't really important for what you're doing. However, it seems to me the DE1/DE2 series kits from Terasic were specifically designed with education in mind. As such, I believe they come with a lot more design examples and demos to facilitate the teaching of a course.

But if you're planning on developing your own labs, I'd go with the Cyclone II kit rather than the DE1 kit.

Jake