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19 years agoI locked at your link stonie and there is bords with ep1c12 device (old cyclone I ) but I need bord with cyclone II device and at least ep2c20 becose it hase 4 PLL and 16 clock inputs like oll bigger cyclone series devices and also need bord with acces to all pins for experimenting and that I don't like in all development bords that there isn't acces to all pins.
my bord for EP2C20F256 (with only 152 I/O) will have 200 pins availible and there will be all pins include VCC IO for all I/O banks and all special function pins and onbord will be this configuration memory (16mb) and power supply for core and memory IO bank and one oscillator and JTAG. All ather interfaces I will put on ather bord (for example cheap 2 layer) and then will stick bords together (so my bord will be like module http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif Actualy I found Cheapest FPGA development bord for 175$ with lot of features on it!, but it isn't ALTERA it is LAttice and it have powerfule FPGA device which can be compared to ep2c20F484 but disadvantage is this device prise it is more expensiver 72$ than cyclone device 42$ so I will not buy this bord becose I alrady explores Quartus software and don't want to spend time lerning ather sofware. BUT ALTERA and ather bord developers can lern from them HOW tom MAKE extremy CHEAP development bord from begginers !!! Becose bord with price 1000$ scare begginers like me!