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18 years ago

Disappointed with Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit

I'm sure nobody cares, but I just wanted to express my disappointment with the long awaited Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit. I was naively hoping for something as general purpose and good valu...

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18 years ago

There is only one "Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit" under "Altera Development Kits" (http://altera.com/products/devkits/kit-dev_platforms.jsp), which is indeed the 3C120 one.

There are only two TerasIC HSMC extension boards listed on both their own site and Altera's (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=39&no=219 and http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=39&no=218), neither of which invalidates what I wrote originally.

Just noticed that TerasIC has a new board out - a $600 2C70 based card with 32 (64?) MiB of SDRAM: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=39&no=226