Cheap FPGA Development Boards

Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards by tverbeure on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:17PM (#24095686)

I can't let a topic like this pass by without mentioning commercial (often obsolete) FPGA-based products that are repurposed as development boards. They usually offer FPGAs with much higher capacity for rock bottom eBay prices.

* Pano Logic G1 board: https://github.com/tomverbeure/panologic

* Pano Logic G2 board: https://github.com/tomverbeure/panologic-g2

* Colorlight 5A-75B: https://github.com/q3k/chubby75

* Cisco HWIC-3G-CDMA: https://github.com/tomverbeure/cisco-hwic-3g-cdma

Playing with these has been a fun hobby of mine and while I have a box full of 'real' development boards, I usually find myself going back to the Cisco board for my personal projects.

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Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards by postalrat on Saturday August 08, 2020 @06:33PM (#24095776)

Comtech AHA363PCIE0301G might be a future option. They are cheap but I don't think anyone has reverse engineered it yet.

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Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards by tverbeure on Saturday August 08, 2020 @07:13PM (#24095987)

I reverse engineered that one partially as well, and somebody has been able to get to an LED blinky.

However, it has the issue that Intel recently took down Quartus 11.0, which is the last version that supports these FPGAs.

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Re:Cheap FPGA Development Boards by ATsch on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:31AM (#24097481)

Unfortunately nobody seems to be working on foss toolchain for those either.

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