ChrisRR
Newbie level 6
Hi, I'm starting to reach the limit of the amount of VHDL I can learn with testbenches and I'm looking to buy an FPGA dev board. I was thinking either the Nexys2 or DE0/DE1.
I'm having trouble finding suppliers in the UK though. I've only found 1 supplier of the DE0 board http://www.absolute-data-services.co.uk and I'd like to shop around but I can't find anywhere else.
I'm trying to avoid importing as I always seem to get stung with VAT and import tax but if need be then I'll do that.
Has anyone here from the UK bought an FPGA board, and if so what did they get and where did they get it from? I'm looking around the £100 mark.
I've also been looking at the Actel smartfusion board which looks relatively cheap, but as it's quite new there doesn't seem to be too much info on it around the net. I don't know if having the extra analogue and uC parts on the chip will just confuse me when I'm trying to focus on the FPGA
I'm having trouble finding suppliers in the UK though. I've only found 1 supplier of the DE0 board http://www.absolute-data-services.co.uk and I'd like to shop around but I can't find anywhere else.
I'm trying to avoid importing as I always seem to get stung with VAT and import tax but if need be then I'll do that.
Has anyone here from the UK bought an FPGA board, and if so what did they get and where did they get it from? I'm looking around the £100 mark.
I've also been looking at the Actel smartfusion board which looks relatively cheap, but as it's quite new there doesn't seem to be too much info on it around the net. I don't know if having the extra analogue and uC parts on the chip will just confuse me when I'm trying to focus on the FPGA