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Re:FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (2012) by whatisapancake on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @05:41PM (#8664997)
I started with a Digilent Basys2[0], it could be a slightly cheaper alternative to the Terasic DE0. It uses a Xilinx chip, has a free design/development software called ISE Webpack, which also has schematic diagram support.

[0] http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=BASYS2&N...

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Re:FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (2012) by sklogic on Thursday November 27, 2014 @06:59AM (#8666861)
One may also want to take a look at Logi-Pi: http://www.element14.com/LOGI
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Re:FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (2012) by edwintorok on Thursday November 27, 2014 @09:01AM (#8667293)
That is interesting, I haven't looked at it in detail yet but what does it use to create the .bit files or is the entire toolchain open source?
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Re:FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (2012) by sklogic on Thursday November 27, 2014 @09:05AM (#8667306)
Unfortunately, it still relies on the same Xilinx ISE (webpack is sufficient), so, it's not possible to cook bitfiles on the Pi itself. But the board itself is nice, easily programmable via SPI, has a decent Spartan6 LX9.
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Re:FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (2012) by edwintorok on Thursday November 27, 2014 @09:09AM (#8667313)
How does it compare to Papilio, if I were to buy one which one should I get? http://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.Learning
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