Thank you so much Numa.
I found out that it is extremely difficult to get any of Xilinx boards manufactured or distributed by Avnet because they do not stock products in India and the shipping charges from the US are very high.
I contacted their office in New Delhi and they told me that the shipping charges would be close to $100 making the board too expensive. They also gave me one of their importers contact details who was too reluctant to respond to my e-mails.
But your advice helped a lot! I found out Digilent's local distributor near New Delhi.They quoted close to INR 6k($120 approx) for their Basys2 board.
I also explored other boards manufactured by Digilent and found out the Nexsys2 and S3EBOARD boards even more tempting.
I now plan to buy either of these boards from CoreEL Technologies India.
Thanks a lot again.
P.S.- For those in India who want to buy Digilent's boards fron CoreEl, they have offices in Noida and Bangalore.
Logix Park, A-4 ,Sec-16,
Noida-201301(UP)
Ph. : 91-120-4366000
Fax : 91-80-30723638, 91-80-25528955,080-41970400
Mob : 91-9810233256
Email:vinay.goel@coreel.com
Web :
www.coreel.com