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Mobile means cell phone.
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Interfacing your system to a cell phone is simple. You just use network programming. In which case, what is wrong with talking directly to a NEEK?
If you need more processing power than the NEEK can provide, then your FPGA hardware will always need to reside in a box (big FPGAs need proper cooling). If that box needs to be moved around, then the MaxExpansion cube and a laptop is a good solution. If not, a PCIe card in a desktop is fine.
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I understand I should not just buy a board without considering the resources I need to use. However, the only FPGA devices I have used is NEEK as I mentioned. So right now I just need some general suggestion on what devices are available there and what are popular(Altera , Xilinx or others are all OK).... I will just use them as a start point and start to do my work... Now I just feel lost...
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You're starting by asking the *wrong* question, i.e., "What board?".
The question you first need to answer is "What processing?"
If your algorithms require lots of floating-point performance, then you will need to look at a high-end device, i.e., Stratix V. However, if your processing can be implemented using fixed-point math, then the Cyclone or Arria or earlier Stratix series devices would be ok.
Cheers,
Dave
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