need advice about choosing a FPGA development board

[39123811]

Hi there, I want to learn FPGA this summer and decide to buy a FPGA board. I already take FPGA course in university and I don't think I am a beginner(only know architecture and did a project on it). Can some people which board has enough logic resource for me to do some project in the coming years and will not be out of date(I have no idea how fast for FPGA hardware grow when compared to PC). I check some but they has to be shipped from Taiwan. You know the shipping fee~~~

I prefer the common board that most people shared and especially has many shared resource on internet.

Thanks

 

[TrickyDicky]

It really is a question of what do you want to do with it? Do you want specific things like ADCs, PCIe, Ethernet, USB? what's your budget?

You should be fine why a cyclone 4 board from altera. Plenty of logic and plenty of IO options. There will be Xilinx Equivolents.

 

[39123811]

Thanks for reply.

Do you have some suggestion about introducing a academic board that is enough for beginner(I only finished 2 or 3 projects on FPGA).The price budget is around 200 bucks.

 

[Ice-Tea]

I recently got a Terasic board. Cheap, well designed, quite a bit of features, well documented, quite a few nice features.

 

[TrickyDicky]

Yeah, the DE0 board should get you going for around $100. No fancy interfaces though. If you can stretch to $400, you can get the Cyclone 4 tranceiver starter kit, so you can mess around with ethernet and PCIe too.

 

[Ice-Tea]

86$ @ Digi-Key

 

[Chan Dev]

My suggestion is you could go for Altera De1 which have Audio/Video interface...you can do plenty of good projects with it.

 

[shatruddha]

All the above mentioned boards are pretty good. But as I see from my view point, I see a growing interest towards Papilio board. Its pretty cheap as well and uses Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA
Its freely shipped by seeedstudio and costs around 85$.
Here is the link
https://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/papilio-pro-p-1301.html?cPath=6_10
check it out
Or you can buy a logic analyser from the same store, its pretty cheap ~50$. So you can use it for dual purpose as a logic analyser and you can learn FPGA programming as well.
its a pretty good tool and best thing about it is its open source as well.
Here is the link
https://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/open-workbench-logic-sniffer-p-612.html?cPath=63_69