Re: XUPV2P from digilentinc

johnzulu[at]yahoo.com wrote:
Ouch ouch ouch. I am not willing to fork out that amount for just
testing water... Any other recommendation?

I found the following on the site:

Spartan-3 Starter Board
Spartan 3E Starter Board
Nexys-2

Any opinions on the boards? Pros and cons?

Thanks,
John

I like the digilent Spartan-3E and 3A boards. I own a 3E500 myself, and a 3E1600 at work. I also have the Spartan-3 PCIe board at work but never quite got to where I needed it for development.

The biggest question: what do you want to do with them?

If you want memory, for instance, look at the Xilinx Memory Interface Generator (MIG) for supported starter boards.

- John_H
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