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13 years ago

Cyclone II/III/IV/V?

For an one-off hobby project I want to use a Cyclone (I've used the I in the past), but I can't decide whether to use a Cyclone 2, 3, 4, or even 5. It's a simple project, just a FPGA with a SD...
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13 years ago

I have to agree the price of the DE-Nano is unbeatable :) but if I have to make a daughterboard for the video DAC, it's not too much trouble to add the FPGA, SDRAM and powersupply circuit as well. On the other hand, I still have a Cyclone NIOS devkit.

It's more or less a skills demonstrator board, I prefer to have a custom board instead of a two-part solution.

As the price across the series is fairly comparable for a given density, then why not go for the most recent device? So Cyclone IV it is, as I see no real disadvantages either.