Suggestions for an FPGA development board purchase.

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malik_123

Joined: 14 May 2007
Posts: 44

17 Jan 2009 9:43 fpga buy

i want to buy some low cos fpga starter kit

i am new to fpga wanted to have the kit so that i can learn the basic of the fpga desiging

what will be good

Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit
or
Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA

i will be gladfull if i get information on some other good kits ,

thanks

svhb

Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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17 Jan 2009 12:43 xilinx fpga kit

Depends a little bit of what you want. A full-featured system, where you just put power on and go? Or a more simple board where you add your own electronics on a kind of prototype board. Do you need memory on the development board?

I'm a little bit biased to @ltera, because I use it, and because I hear rather a lot of comments that the tools are a bit easier to start with. From component side of view, if you want a low cost starter kit, the componenets used are the more cheap cyclone/spartan devices, and are comparable.

For starters : www.fpga4fun.com

Stefaan

obinobi

Joined: 17 Jan 2009
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Location: Poland

17 Jan 2009 19:22 from where i can buy xilinx fpga kit in pune

Hello
I have DE1 FPGA kit from Terasic.
www.terasic.com
Board incudes some peripherals like Audio Codec, VGA output etc. In my opinion it is quite good evaluation kit. The board have two 40-pin expanding connectors. Additionally you may buy a different daughter cards (with 5MP camera, LCD dispalys etc) for these evaluation board so you may create wide range of applications.
Quite similar is DE2 which consist Ethernet PHY and 16x2 LCD.

Eval kit for SPARTAN-3E is quite similar to DE2 and propably he is cheaper than DE2.

Best regards

omara007

Joined: 06 Jan 2003
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18 Jan 2009 0:13 cheapest fpga kit

obinobi wrote:

Is there any company like Terasic but for Xilinx FPGAs ? .. I mean other than Xilinx themselves .. a company that produces solution for Xilinx FPGA kits

obinobi

Joined: 17 Jan 2009
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18 Jan 2009 8:30 de1 fpga

Hello
There is a lot of external companies having evaluation boards based on a Xilinx devices. But do they have modular solutions with daughter cards? For me it's hard to say.

Best regards

radix

Joined: 23 Jul 2002
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19 Jan 2009 15:25 fpga kits india

Check out the Fpga4Fun website:

http://www.fpga4fun.com/index.html

The guy that runs the website has several low cost dev boards that he now sells on:

http://www.knjn.com/

Hope that helps.

Radix

kvingle

Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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Location: Mumbai, India.

20 Jan 2009 11:21 fpga board buy

I bought this kit for 2600 Rs. pretty much value for money.

http://www.em.avnet.com/errors/404/?404;http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl

omara007

Joined: 06 Jan 2003
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20 Jan 2009 15:16 best fpga kits

kvingle wrote:

I bought this kit for 2600 Rs. pretty much value for money.

http://www.em.avnet.com/errors/404/?404;http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl

Did you ship it from the US or you already have distributors in India ?
I believe its price is even lower than DHL shipping cost Smile

sph3r3

Joined: 12 Sep 2002
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20 Jan 2009 22:55 homemade vga camera xilinx

omara007 wrote:

Is there any company like Terasic but for Xilinx FPGAs ? .. I mean other than Xilinx themselves .. a company that produces solution for Xilinx FPGA kits

That would be Digilent (http://www.digilentinc.com/).

kvingle

Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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21 Jan 2009 7:39 buy fpga kit

Yes .I bought it from a local distributor of AVINET, INDIA.

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ronydc

Joined: 17 Nov 2005
Posts: 148

31 Jan 2009 11:53 buy fpga

dear friend.. kvingle,
i wana know much more about the kit and i visited the website also but can u give me some more information. about this kinda programming and its prectical implimentation..

the kit is available for 39 $ and so around 1800 rs.
u bought all the peripherals also ..? for 99$ ( thay say) ..

give me much more information about ur experience with the kit because i need to buy it fast and i got the address of the distributor at PUNE .
IT ALL DEPENDS UPON UR EXPERIENCE WITH THE KIT.
SO please reply me fast so i can buy it fast. and please provide me some programing examples too ( a little) so the forum members can also have a good experience about the kowledge.

thanks friend i m in gujarat.

-RONY

i m a microcontroller programmer.

kvingle

Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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31 Jan 2009 12:44 xilinx spartan 3 starter kit developer from pune

As i said i bought it for 2600 INR(delivered at Mumbai) from the PUNE AVINET distributor. No, I didn't took the accessories as it was costlier than kit itself Very Happy

The kit is really great to start with FPGA and PSoC.
It also includes its USB programming cable(that is a great feature as USB FPGA programmers are expensive. XILINX USB platform cable will cost you around 225 dollars, though you can have a homemade parallel programmer, USB is todays Buzzword) P.S. The programming cable is specific to this kit only and uses a small AVINET utility (Not impact) to program.
FPGA density is good enough for a starter. As given in the link above the pcb has temp sensor, serial and parallel memory and plenty of other feature. It also inlclude 6.4 GB DVD of software bundled by XILINX. including Xilinx ISE 10.1, EDK and all other xilinx EDA tools. (saves a lot of bandwidth)
and don't go by the price 39 dollars..It may vary.