Which FPGA/CPLD dev-kit should I go for ?

The Cyclone V GX Starter Kit has a price of $179 (Terasic Website)

a kit with around 77K Logic Elements

It also has

HDMI Video Output

Plenty of other interfaces

SDCard Slot

4Gb LPDDR2

4Mb SRAM

etc

If you want to understand

Platform Designer

NIOS

the mSGDMA controller & a Video Frame Buffer for HDMI

then

the files I put on the altera wiki a while ago may help you.

www.alterawiki.com/wiki/cyclone5_starterkit_hdmi

Hi C1Ron,

To learn more Avalon interfaces, Quartus Platform Designer, NIOS II, etc.

You can go through the University Program tutorial link below.

https://www.altera.com/support/training/university/materials-tutorials.html

For Design Tools, IP and Design Examples, you can refer to the link below.

https://www.altera.com/documentation/design-tools-ip-and-design-examples.html

With the features mention above, I would suggest you to get DE10-Nano Kit from Terasic with price of $130.

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=205&no=1046&partno=1

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Cyclone V boards from Terasic are a good starting point and are under $200.

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Is this still true, given that the Cyclone is being discontinued? (see announcement) Perhaps it is still the best selection for finding FPGA demo and development kits, but it looks like some or all Cyclones are to be no more. Perhaps there is a new Altera FPGA that replaces it?

Hope this helps.

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Is this still true, given that the Cyclone is being discontinued? (see announcement) Perhaps it is still the best selection for finding FPGA demo and development kits, but it looks like some or all Cyclones are to be no more. Perhaps there is a new Altera FPGA that replaces it?

Hope this helps.

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Where did you hear this? Do you mean older Cyclone devices? I don't think Cyclone is going anywhere. C10 just came out. Here's a board from Intel:

https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/cyclone-10-lp-evaluation-kit.html

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Where did you hear this? Do you mean older Cyclone devices? I don't think Cyclone is going anywhere. C10 just came out. Here's a board from Intel:

https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/cyclone-10-lp-evaluation-kit.html

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Thank you, sstrell. So only the Cyclone I is to be discontinued.