Availability of cheap Spartan3 board in India.

[snayak]

Dear All,

I want to start a small FPGA project for my learning.
I would like to use Spartan 3 board for it.
What would be cheap Spartan3 board available in Indian market.

How much will be its cost, who is the seller etc?

Please guide.

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

 

[viveks2585]

Hi,

You can try to buy spartan 3e boards. Digilent are the seller who can give you the board.
Cost will be around 4.5k and more depending on the models.
"Basys 2 Spartan-3E FPGA Board" would be ideal board for your requirement.

You will find boards which are lesser cost but the supporting files like documentation is tough to find.
Check out the digilent website and you can order it online.
Hope this solves your query.

Thanks,
Vivek.S

 

[snayak]

Dear Vivek,

Many thanks for your help.
Looks like, to create a simple and complete system, Spartan 3 (oldest version, not 3A, 3E etc.) was too good. But Digilent seems to close this series. :-(
Also, the book, "FPGA prototyping by verilog examples", by Pong P Chu uses this version.
Came to knew from Others that, the 1MB SRAM that comes with this board provides a very simple way of interfacing to memory.

Is there any chance, such a simpler design shall be available from any other sources in future?
Any boards available with similar SRAM?

Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak