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Title: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: Costia on January 21, 2012, 03:38:04 AM I am an electric engineering student and i would like to experiment with an FPGA - not specifically for mining.
what would you recommend as a cheap starter kit? I am thinking on using it for audio/image compression/decompression and mining experiments I am thinking specifically about fpga since so far i mostly had to deal with micro controllers and software, and now would like to experiment with hardware. Is there a sub 100$ option? Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: rjk on January 21, 2012, 03:40:56 AM I am an electric engineering student and i would like to experiment with an FPGA - not specifically for mining. There isn't anything that cheap, but you may wish to consider either Icarus or Ztex, because they have lots of I/O options. See http://bitcoinfpga.com/ for a good comparison of various FPGA options.what would you recommend as a cheap starter kit? I am thinking on using it for audio/image compression/decompression and mining experiments I am thinking specifically about fpga since so far i mostly had to deal with micro controllers and software, and now would like to experiment with hardware. Is there a sub 100$ option? Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: 2112 on January 21, 2012, 04:18:30 AM Is there a sub 100$ option? Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/AES-S6MB-LX9.htm $89.00 Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: Costia on January 21, 2012, 04:31:41 AM thanks
its soooo cute :) Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: pusle on January 21, 2012, 11:17:13 AM Digilent has several boards with academic discount: http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,400&Cat=10&FPGA The Atlys @ 199USD looks like a steal if you're gonna do something more heavy. Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: Redi on March 26, 2013, 04:12:39 PM Is there a sub 100$ option? Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/AES-S6MB-LX9.htm $89.00 Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: MiningBuddy on March 26, 2013, 05:12:33 PM http://www.altera.co.uk/education/univ/materials/boards/de0-nano/unv-de0-nano-board.html
Gets about 20mhs, but a great platform to learn on imo. Title: Re: cheap FPGA recommendations? Post by: goxed on March 26, 2013, 09:09:27 PM http://www.altera.co.uk/education/univ/materials/boards/de0-nano/unv-de0-nano-board.html I used this a lot. Special price for univ. orders.Gets about 20mhs, but a great platform to learn on imo. http://www.xilinx.com/univ/xupv5-lx110t.htm (http://www.xilinx.com/univ/xupv5-lx110t.htm) |