JoeN:
aarondc:
And to help me learn VHDL, I lashed out and got one of these off Ebay ($182 with free postage):I'll turn to the FPGA book and board when my Arduino projects start bogging down or I need a break.
Last summer I got this board from Terasic, using an oldish student card:
Terasic - All FPGA Boards - Cyclone IV - Altera DE2-115 Development and Education Board
Very good deal. I guess it is similar to yours. It's been fun to mess with and throw Verilog against to try stuff out. The chip is HUGE.
I spent some time working out if I could get a uni friend to get one for me - given I have not been a uni student for a while, and in the end decided The cheaper board was less hassle. Those DE2-115s look unreal though. If I had a student card it would have been a no brainer.