Manfield Chow wrote: > I am new to FPGA design. I am learning verilog and modelsim now. > I want to implement my design for personal interest in future. > Any company of FPGA is OK for me. The most important is not expensive > and easy to get the resource personally (eg. FPGA, download cable, > programmer....) > I live in Hong Kong. It seems that it is difficult to buy FPGA and > FPGA board in Hong Kong for retail. I know that I can buy in internet > with Credit card payment, but I afraid that it is not security. Any > other method suggested for me? Jan Gray has link to a number of FPGA evaluation boards (http://www.fpgacpu.org/links.html#FPGA%20prototyping%20boards), unfortunately a number of them are out of date. I can recommend XESS' $279 XSA-100 which comes with an Xilinx Spartan2, 16MB of SDRAM, PROM, VGA-out, PS2-interface, and more. XESS has extensive support on the web. (All Xilinx FPGA's up to and including the Spartan series are supported by the free WebPack tool chain). I recently stumbled upon another very interesting board that is the first I have seen that looks like a better deal than XESS's XSA-100: http://www.insight-electronics.com/cgi-bin/bvutf8/memec/scripts/local/mc_loc_b.jsp?Div=INSIGHT&Reg=AMERICAS&Country=UNITED_STATES&Lang=EN&EDOID7428&Manu=XILINX Features: - Price: $250 (XSA-100 $275) - Form factor: PCI card (with full PCI connection) - Memory: 2M 32bit SDRAM (half of XSA-100, but twice as wide) - FPGA: Spartan-II XC2S200 (twice the gates of the XC2S100 of XSA-100) - Clocks: 2 (twice....) - ISP PROM - Two 7-segment LED (twice ..blah blah) - buttons, DIP switches, regulators, RS-232, JTAG, I/O connectors, etc I wish they had a bigger FPGA and more memory though (for a higher price of course). /Tommy |