Cheap FPGA Development Boards
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Cheap FPGA Development Boards
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Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#2Seems out of date. For example, it links to Digilent's retired Zybo board instead of the current version.
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#3Seems out of date. For example, it links to Digilent's retired Zybo board instead of the current version.
Current version is the Zybo Z7 : https://store.digilentinc.com/zybo-z7-zynq-7000-arm-fpga-soc...
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#4Seems out of date. For example, it links to Digilent's retired Zybo board instead of the current version.
When I saw the Parallella (https://parallella.org) listed there I thought that it must be a very old list, but it turns out that it’s still being sold at least by Digikey.
The page is updated though, as can be seen in the edit history with the link at the page footer: https://joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards?action=d...
As of this writing, the last update was on 2020-07-20.
I’ve sent an e-mail to the author pointing him to this discussion in case other corrections get posted here.
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#5There are cheap Virtex-6 and Kintex-7 boards as well ~$100-$150 on Aliexpress.
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#6So which company is the most open-source friendly provider of FPGA chips these days?
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#7So which company is the most open-source friendly provider of FPGA chips these days?
Probably Lattice, although considering the field that's not saying much. But they at least removed a license term on their software that some of the FOSS toolchain developers complained about.
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#8If you need 5V compatibility, or large sizes for cheap, search eBay for [altera university]. Since these boards were mandatory for many classes there are pretty easy to find for under $50, and include lots of peripherals, buttons, LEDs, connectors, etc. The cheap ones are old, of course, but still useful.
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#9So which company is the most open-source friendly provider of FPGA chips these days?
FPGA tools allow a lot of customization if you need it, what difference will it make if they are fully opensource? FPGA chip design isn't opensource anyway
Re: Cheap FPGA Development Boards
#10My favorite ebay FPGA board vendor is QMTech.
Cheap, well made,large choice, decent documentation.
[edit]: they also have an aliexpress store.