What products are you excited to get a hold of in the future? Is there anything out there you've been watching and just waiting to be released to get your hands on? Let us know!
What products are you excited to get a hold of in the future? Is there anything out there you've been watching and just waiting to be released to get your hands on? Let us know!
A while back, I evaluated the Altera NIOS II development kit for Element-14, and my conclusion was that it was undoubtedly a great board, with an onboard touch LCD and video/audio I/O but seriously let down by the lack of basic I/O with which to interface it to the outside world.
The other day, I came across a product that I think will interest a lot of people. It is the Altera "DE0-Nano Development and Education Board" (also built by Terasic, who make the NIOS dev board) which hosts an Altera cyclone IV FPGA, SDRAM and ROM, and lots and lots of standard 0.1" I/O headers. This board looks perfect for hobbyists and professionals alike, and looks like it is pretty cost effective too (i.e. cheap). Many FPGA development kits make the mistake of either being too complicated, or over-simplified and useless. This looks like it is just right.
(I have no connection with Altera or Terasic)
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=139&No=593
