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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

DE0-nano would be fine to learn on if you have LEDs, seven-segment displays, push buttons, etc that you could connect to the header pins. you will want to start by learning an HDL and the tool flow, neither of which really require a specific board