Choosing a low cost FPGA eval. board

[bercam]

fpga eval boards

I'm trying to buy a FPGA evaluation board in order to dsp implementation. I've found two posibilities, they are ALTERA Cyclone and XILINX SpartanIII both cost 100$ about.

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Which is more powerful?
Which have then best IDE?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Beetroots]

do-spar3-dk

Check to see if the Cyclone parts have dedicated multipliers - I think they were only introduced in the Cyclone II parts.

The Spartan III on the xilinx board has 12 multipliers, which are obviously useful for DSP applications.

You can download the development environments for both these boards - why not them out to see which you prefer?

 

[hoangthanhtung]

low cost fpga board

I'm trying to buy a FPGA evaluation board in order to dsp implementation. I've found two posibilities, they are @ltera Cyclone and XILINX SpartanIII both cost 100$ about.

h**p://www.futureelectronics.com/promos/cyclone/
h**p://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xebiz/board_detail.jsp?sGlobalNavPick=&sSecondaryNavPick=&category=-1210689&iLanguageID=1&key=DO-SPAR3-DK

Which is more powerful?
Which have then best IDE?

Thanks in advance.

Search in xess.com or memec.com

 

[delay]

fpga board low cost

Digilab http://www.digilentinc.com/ boards are lowest in market
i.e., ~ $99.

delay (delayed by technology)

 

[Beetroots]

fpga eval board

The xilinx Spartan III board is in fact made by Digilent, but is subsidised by Xilinx.

From the Digilent website their $89 board is loaded with a 50K gate device, as opposed to the 200k device on the $99 'Xilinx' board.

Evaluation versions of ISE 6.2i and modelsim 5.7g (xilinx edition) are also supplied with the $99 kit.