BTW This is very cool: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio
Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
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Re: Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
#22So I have a question. FPGA development really interests me, but I really don’t know where to get started. I’ve done a bit of embedded systems work, mostly with WinCE 5 a decade or so back and some work on video slot machines, but nothing at this level. What would be a good place to start? Most of the things I have looked at seem to assume a slightly higher level of knowledge than I currently have.
This is crazy helpful for beginners: https://github.com/FPGAwars/icestudio
They have drag and drop FPGA programming using visual gates and cores with very well documented examples.
Re: Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
#23Be nice if they had a list of boards with open source development chains (which would require them to acknowledge that Lattice exists - seems completely missing).
Re: Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
#24You can add a board to the list now:
https://www.fpgadeveloper.com/board-addition/
Re: Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
#25Am I missing something about the definition of the word "comprehensive"? How can you call a list comprehensive and ignore Altera/Intel? Last I checked they were the biggest FPGA player in town. I have three devkits within arms reach that aren't on this list.
After Intel took over Altera, the focus has switched primarily to Data Center processing. Just look at both AMD/Xilinx and Intel/Altera websites and you can see a big difference. If you are a Data Center Engineer than Altera is probably a good match. But AMD/Xilinx has a more diverse focus, specifically video, robotics and AI inference. Altera and Xilinx were about 50/50 competitors for many years and I think that was always healthy competition. Now that they've both been bought out, the future of FPGAs was very tenuous. In my opinion AMD has done a much better job at maintaining and even improving FPGA technology.
Re: Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
#26Am I missing something about the definition of the word "comprehensive"? How can you call a list comprehensive and ignore Altera/Intel? Last I checked they were the biggest FPGA player in town. I have three devkits within arms reach that aren't on this list.
After Intel took over Altera, the focus has switched primarily to Data Center processing. Just look at both AMD/Xilinx and Intel/Altera websites and you can see a big difference. If you are a Data Center Engineer than Altera is probably a good match. But AMD/Xilinx has a more diverse focus, specifically video, robotics and AI inference. Altera and Xilinx were about 50/50 competitors for many years and I think that wa…
But I agree this list in not completely comprehensive without Altera!?! Also, I don't see the Kria boards...
Re: Comprehensive list of FPGA development boards
#27This list really limits itself in terms of Xilinx price-to-performance by disallowing anything with a SOM. You can get a combined SOM + Carrier board with https://www.xilinx.com/products/som/kria/kr260-robotics-star... that's going to crush most things there despite being relatively affordable.
Agree, the SOM + Carrier board is the only thing that makes sense unless you are doing some large scale production making a million high end boards. The SOM's have suddenly made it possible for small scale or even independent bedroom projects to make use of high-end SoCs! KR260 / KV260 are both great boards.