What to look at when buying an FPGA board?

[vizard356]

I am new to VLSI and FPGA.
I want to learn about FPGA technology. So i decided to buy fpga board.
I want to know which board is affordable and good for the begineers.

What are the features should be consider before buying board?

I found some board that are affordable but dont know they are good enough. If you can tell us that would be great.

I checked altera site and in education board i found DE1 and DE2 Development & Education Board.
http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/unv-dev-edu-boards.html

Digilent Spartan 3E Starter Board :- http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable

Digilent Basys System Board:-
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=BASYS&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable

Any other board any one can suggest and where can i buy FPGA board India.

Thank You

 

[bigaussie]

basys board india

As such all the boards are good since they are made from reputed companies. I have a MAX II CPLD board at $50 I got to India from Taiwan.

www.slscorp.com
Indian based company who manufactures boards & also sells for other brands.

Regarding parameters while selecting board, I would say you should select board based on FPGA device it has, other peripherals like memory, switches, LCD, LEDs, no. of I/O lines required by you, etc.

Actually I don't work on FPGAs so I don't know about them much, but I work on CPLDs, where while selecting a board I found that although same family devices were present on different boards, there was a vast difference in terms of I/O lines, which can be crucial.

I would suggest DE 1 would be good for beginners, get it from slscorp.com

Bigaussie

 

[BooM]

Re: FPGA board

Hi,

i am beginner too and I have a SPARTAN-3E starter kit and I would suggest it to you ,also.

For more info check the site : **broken link removed**

also there are ,already, many references to do a start in order to learn the board.
Check the site:
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I am not from India. But I thing it is easy to order it via Internet.

Regards,

B.

 

[jallem]

FPGA board

I would recommend XeSS.com

 

[calm]

FPGA board

xillinx development board is a good choice!

 

[echo47]

FPGA board

Here's a list of many different FPGA boards, with a wide range of features and prices:
https://www.fpga-faq.org/FPGA_Boards.shtml

Some of the boards sold by Xilinx are actually made by Digilent. The Xilinx version sometime costs more, but it may include more goodies in the box.

Xilinx has distributors in India:
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