Thanks for your review. It prompted me to get one as well.
My quick notes after a less than a week:
- Shipping is fast: I ordered an a Sunday and got it Tuesday morning (Taiwan -> Ca)
- Packaging and documentation is the best I seen so far from a FPGA dev kit (I have many)
- An overall care for details (rubber feet, acrylic protection cover, test wires, etc.)
- There are lots of small positive surprises. Example:
- The FPGA is the fastest speed grade
- The PS/2 supports Y-splitters so both a keyboard and mouse can be attached
- It shipped with the most important datasheets
Minor issues:
- The lab exercises haven't been updated for the EP2C70 edition and may confuse beginnings
- The supplied pin assignment .csv didn't work for me, but cloning one of the demos worked fine
- Only the 1-bit SDcard interface is supported.
A truly spectacular board.