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Altera_Forum
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11 years ago

Time to start learning FPGA! How to choose the correct FPGA for this project?

Hi all! I hope this isnt a too booring newbie post, but I didnt know really where to start. My questions are many and the road to learn FPGA seems long, but please bare with me. My hobby...
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11 years ago

A great idea...

I strongly recommend you get yourself a cheap development kit and have a play. It'll be the best way to start to understand the full (or even part of the) potential of an FPGA.

You'll not go far wrong with the de0-nano development board (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/partners/kit-terasic-de0-nano.html) made for Altera by Terasic. It's very cheap and has everything you'd want to experiment with a processor system - either Altera's Nios or your own Z80...

Cheers,

Alex