Suggest me a low cost FPGA chip for beginners

[SphinX]

Low cost FPGA Chips ?

Salam,

I search for a cheap fpga chip suitable for a beginner (I prefer Xilinx Family )

I can order it from RS Component Company.

Thanks in advance

 

[tlp71@hotmail.com]

Re: Low cost FPGA Chips ?

depending your voltage
spartan family are cheapest.
may be not so cheap the electronic to makethe right voltage.
Bye.
g.

 

[davyzhu]

Low cost FPGA Chips ?

Hi, Xilinx will recommand you to use Spartan3 series (200k and 400k gates).

 

[delay]

Re: Low cost FPGA Chips ?

Spartan is just about the biggest bang for the buck for I/O's, CLB and gates compared to major FPGA players such as Lucent, Atmel, @ltera, Actel and Quick Logic. However, RS does not have a variety in parts and they will probably have the lower members of Spartan series.

delay (delayed by technology)

 

[huster]

Low cost FPGA Chips ?

If you prefer xilinx,SpartanIII may be the best choice.

 

[samcheetah]

Low cost FPGA Chips ?

once i saw a quotation in a lab at my university. they were ordering SpartanIII FPGAs for us. i wanted to know what FPGA boards do u usually see in universities for undergraduate programmes. and is SpartanIII a great thing to start with???

 

[bibo1978]

Re: Low cost FPGA Chips ?

MEMIC has a cheap Spartan III Evaluation board "nice one" I believe it contains 200,000 gate with 200 $ "cheap", I don't remember the name exactly but it include "LC" so I guess it was spartan III LC### or ###LC check out memic

 

[yodathegreat]

Re: Low cost FPGA Chips ?

Hi all,

Xilinx is very very expensive. (FPGA + EEPROM or PROM)

Only ACTEL is low cost. and better than Xilinx.

best regards

 

[SphinX]

Low cost FPGA Chips ?

Salam,

SpartanIII( 200k gates ) starter kit cost only 99$ !

SphinX

 

[winloud]

Low cost FPGA Chips ?

I think @ltera 's Cylone series is good

 

[bibo1978]

Re: Low cost FPGA Chips ?

The MEMEC board is spartan -3 400 gate I miss typed it, the board name is Spartan-3 LC (no numbers) and it costs 200$. Infact, it is only 175$ if you r in USA