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Hi! I'm interested in creating a development board for a strandard Altera FPGA, but my friends told me building a development board for a FPGA is more complicated than building one for a atmega micro...
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Honored ContributorI would like to add one more thing here. One thing that is very important while designing a development board is the end usage. Are you planning to have the peripheral controllers inside the fpga or will be having separate controller chips on the board? :confused:
For example: - A board designed for using/designing a USB 2.0 controller inside the FPGA will use a transceiver PHY chip stuffed between the USB connector and FPGA. See: http://www.slscorp.com/products/development-boards/corecommander.html - While a board designed for using a separate controller with just the interface logic inside the FPGA will use a controller chip stuffed between the USB connector and FPGA. Check DE2 board.
