Honored ContributorHello:
I'm study on FPGA boards, in the beginning, I bought Cyclone IV board, then i"m amazed about the numbers of FPGA boards that available, same model but different price one is 199$ and the other 6,999$ !! why are all these difference? and how to decide to buy a general purpose board lets say ($300 - $500)? thanks
Honored ContributorIt will be interfaces expensive boards tend to be the top end stratix devices with 8x pcie. Cheaper boards may not have pcie at all.
Also check other specsHonored Contributorand your suggestion for all-in -one board that i can use for long time?
Honored ContributorIt depend immensely on what your design goal with the FPGA is. What is the use case?
Honored ContributorI'm still student, but after that what is the key points for choose what board?
Honored ContributorWell, I like this Cyclone V kit for learning and experimenting with FPGA. It has a low entry price.
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=163&no=941 This kit also contains a dual-core ARM CPU, but you don't have to use/activate it to be able to use the FPGA.Honored Contributorthank you very much
Honored ContributorHonored ContributorHi wst170,
The Terasic boards are all very nice. They come with schematics, and the boards have lots of features. The DE0-nano is a nice low-cost simple board to get started. The DE-series of boards are all pretty nice too. Have you thought of a project you'd like to implement? If not, think of one, figure out what kind of I/O you think you will need, and then ask which board to buy. Some of Terasic's more recent boards have Arduino shield headers, so they might be a good option if you want to interface to the real-world. Cheers, Dave
