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10 years ago

Development kit selection for newbie

Hello, guidance needed: I am about to buy my first FPGA development kit and I think that I am choosing between the terasIC DE1-SoC Board and their Cyclone V GX Starter Kit: http://www.tera...
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10 years ago

It depends what you want to do with it. Do you have any projects in mind?

Basically the SoC gives you an ARM, but smaller FPGA fabric. The non-SOC board gives you access to transceivers and a larger FPGA.

What is your goal?