Re:How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (2013)
by sitkack on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:18PM
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I second the parallella, not only does it have an FPGA, an arm core and a massively parallel cpu. So much to play with and still running Linux so the workflow is super smooth.
http://www.parallella.org/
It's got USB/ethernet/arm cpu , and has been incorporated into numerous other projects. It's ~$100.00 USD.