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15 years ago

What am i lookin at !?

this is actually embarrassing but i found this board at a local store... but i have no idea if this is what i want well, this is the board: http://www.ekt2.com/_files/41%20fpga%20trainer.pdf...
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15 years ago

From a quick look it seems that you will need an external JTAG probe to configure the FPGA, USB/Byte/Ethernet blaster.

I hope it's really cheap because the Cyclone present on the board is quite limited in resources compared to more modern chips. If you have the money I'd advise to take a cyclone iii starter kit (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3-starter.html) instead, the FPGA has a lot more logic resources and there is an embedded USB blaster.