Summary of FPGA development boards

Note

We try to keep this page up to date. It was last updated March 2011.

Here is a list of some entry-level FPGA boards. They all work with the free software from the FPGA vendors (Xilinx or Altera).

Product	Price	connection	FPGA
XESS XuLA-50	$39	USB	XC3S50A
Avnet Spartan-3A Evaluation Kit	$49	USB	Xilinx XC3S400A
LatticeXP2 Brevia	$49	Parallel	Lattice LFXP2-5E-6
BeMicro Eval Kit	$49	USB	Altera EP3C16F
Basys2 FPGA Board	$79	USB	Xilinx XC3E100
KNJN Saxo	$79.95	USB	Altera EP1C3T100
Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard	$89	USB	Spartan-6 XC6SLX9
Spartan 3E Breakout and Development Board	$99	JTAG	Xilinx XC3S500E
EasyFPGA EZ1KUSB-10	$169	USB	Altera EP1K10T
Xilinx-3A Starter Kit	$189	USB	Xilinx XC3S700A
XESS XSA-3S1000	$199	Parallel	XC3S1000
EasyFPGA EZ1CUSB-6	$199	USB	Altera EP1C12

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