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Recommendations for university style development board for DSP

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I am looking at the Altera DE0, DE1 and DE2 as well as the Xilinx/Digilent university ranges of boards to try out some DSP programming. I also want to be able to process FFT's.

The issue appears to be which FPGA will do full floating point, or fixed floating point. I am not
clear on the issues but my initial thoughts are to go for the Altera boards since Quartus is something I have dipped my toe in with previously.

However the Xilinx boards such as the Basys 3, Artix 7 from Digilent may be a better bet. So its
the Atera Terasic DE range or the Xilinx Digilent Artix 7 based boards.

Advice on this would be much appreciated.

Rob
 

Floating point will require a floating point IP core like an IEEE754 core. You may want to look at the IP catalog of both Altera/Xilinx to determine if either of them have a free core or if you need to pay for one.

Usually hardware designs will use fixed point as it uses a lot less resources than a floating point core.
 
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