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15 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 Cyclone III FPGA starter kit or cyclone II starter development kit or if you think if there are better learning kits out there you would recommend, also if there are any good books from experience that teaches VHDL clearly.

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    15 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/