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14 years ago

Cyclone III FPGA starter kit or cyclone II starter development kit?

Hi, I have been programming AVR chips for a while but now I want to get into something more complicated with more stuff to do and heard about FPGA. I was wondering witch kit I would learn better with...
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14 years ago

the Cyclone II Starter Kit is probably better because it has 0.1" pitch headers where as the Cyclone III has a Samtec connector "HSMC" slot. the Cyclone III family has more RAM blocks and multiplier blocks, but the Cyclone II Starter Kit comes with a reasonable sized FPGA

be sure to check out the kits from Terasic too:

http://www.terasic.com.tw/en/