I've been meaning to get hold of an FPGA development board for a while -- I have a few projects that would need one, and I've outlevelled stuff I can do with CPLDs
-- and was just wondering what kind of returns I can expect from them. Ideally I'd like the purchase to be self-financing.
I see some posts that talk about figures (e.g. 80 Mh/s for boards based on a Cyclove IV 115, like the DE2-115) but (1) they're all quite old and (2) the posts that talk about the board I'm most likely to get, the DE0-nano, are quite self contradictory. I've seen figures from 10 to 75 (!) quoted for it. So, anyone want to tell me what is actually currently achievable?