is altera better optionCheck the tools first of all! Xilinx software is quite buggy and annoying.
In my opinion - yes. Why? Because I have Spartan-3E Starter Kit, have experienced coregen bugs, MIG suckness and the most wonderful part when You update the tools and previous design doesn't synthesize... Take a look at DE1-DE3 series of boards.
Also have a look on BeMicro or BeMicro-SDK.I am Newbie to FPGA based design ....I intent to buy one kit for our Academic project work in embedded systems RISC core .and IMage compression
Do the kits come with protective box or we have to buy?
Well, Bemicro-SDK looks much better, it is Cyclone IV, it has ethernet, 64MByte sdram, and at least full schematics are availableI have BeMicro board... When I got it, it was very badly documented and almost no examples... Dunno how it is now, but I believe the same? BeMicro-SDK is more to consider, however its price is almost reaching DE1 price. Plus You need expansion board for BeMicro to do something useful. And finally, BeMicro is made to use for softcore development, so don't take away a joy of doing digital design in logic only
I recommand that you could buy Altera DE2 or DE2-70 with software Quartus II and NIOS II. There are educational kits for Terasic such that it's friendly to new user. It contains control panel which can control the board directly by host. And there are a lot of example codes for reference on Altera forum and Internet. The only one drawback for above is that it's just a educational kits which means it's not powerful compared to other commerical version. Good luck!
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