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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by vvanders on Sunday December 11, 2016 @08:24PM (#13154792)
If you don't care about the DSP units you can pick up a CPLD kit for ~$20 [1].

[1] http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/lattice-semiconduct...

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by duskwuff on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:26PM (#13155050)
You can also get a "real" -- albeit small -- FPGA from Lattice for $25:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/lattice-semiconduct...

The Arty is a much more capable board, though.

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by thatcat on Sunday December 11, 2016 @09:37PM (#13155092)
What do you like about the Arty?

I'm considering the parallella board, which is around the same price.

https://www.parallella.org/board/

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Re:What It Takes to Build True FPGA as a Service by duskwuff on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:42AM (#13156344)
Between the two I'd recommend the Arty without hesitation.

The Parallella is intended as a demonstration board for the Epiphany SOC. The $99 model has no GPIOs or JTAG interface, making it essentially unusable for FPGA development; the higher-end models will still be awkward to work with.

The Arty is intended for FPGA development, and is much better suited for it -- built-in JTAG controller, lots of GPIOs on easily accessible connectors, user I/Os, etc.

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