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Low cost FPGA board in India

26 Apr 2011

advaneharshal

India

Hi,

Can any one help, for a low cost FPGA board. i need i for small expt. I have a laptop so, it should be USB programable. Budget 5,000 -6,000.

Replies

mukund.md

India
40 weeks ago

Hi, it may be a bit late but I have a great beginer board called papilio one from gadgetfactory:

http://papilio.cc

It uses onboard 2-channel USB to serial converter that can be used to program the chip as well as for communications. Its cost is around 3k.

 

mukund

LStacey

United Kingdom
40 weeks ago

Very cool!

shobhitkukreti

India
1 year ago

I have a kit, but it works with parallel port. 2900/- let me know if interested. You can get a USB programmer for it in rs 1000/-. I can tell you the source for it

Oli Glaser

United Kingdom
1 year ago

Hi,

 

5000 - 6000 what? it helps to put the currency :-)

I assume you mean rupees, so about say $120 or £80.

I would have a look at Digilents site, they make some decent cheap FGPA start boards, which can be programmed via USB, plus have many helpful books/tutorials to go with them. Nexys 2 springs to mind, though I have no direct experience of them and not sure of the price.

When starting with FPGAs, I went a different route of buying the programmer and making my own board - this means you are not limited to one board, as you have the programmer (useful if prototyping a commercial priduct) and I think it helps one to learn more about the finer points.

If it's just for a one off experiment, then I would certainly grab a cheap dev board though.