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Honored ContributorLow cost, Suitable USB key style FPGA development kit for students
Hi Can you orientate me in the best direction so I can recommend my students a low cost FPGA development kit which they can program with Quartus II on a PC? I believe there are USBkey style FP...
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Honored ContributorHi Ian,
Arrow/Altera have three kits in their BeMicro series; BeMicro (linked to by Cris72), BeMicro-SDK, and BeMicro-CV http://parts.arrow.com/item/detail/arrow-development-tools/bemicrocv#cpgg http://www.arrownac.com/solutions/bemicro-sdk/ Terasic/Arrow have the DE0-nano. http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?no=593 What projects were you hoping to have the students work on? The 100-mil headers on the DE0-nano are easier to interface to than the 80-pin edge connector on the BeMicro or BeMicro-SDK, but the BeMicro-CV has both 100-mil headers. This thread has a BeMicro-CV example ... http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43992 I have all of these boards, so can provide further comments if you have specific questions. Cheers, Dave
