Cheap Cyclone 10

RE: Cheap Cyclone 10

michaelkellett — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:54:14 GMT

Agree re.version problems. Happy to see you can still get at alot of the free IP.

Altera are better in this respect - much easier to download earlier versions and they don't have the same enthusiasm for changing the names.

My boards (when they come) for Artix have demo code written for Vivado 2018.2 - I may reget going for the current version

RE: Cheap Cyclone 10

michaelkellett — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:54:53 GMT

That's a pretty beefy FPGA compared with the Cyclone 10 I'm playing with which has only 6kLUTs (compared with 52k).

The Zynq seems to have more DSP slices per LUT than the standard non Zynq Artix parts.

RE: Cheap Cyclone 10

michaelkellett — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 09:47:40 GMT

Thanks for that - it looks as if (as Xilinx and Altera both tell us) that letting the tools decide by allowing the inference of RAM resources is not

only handy (in that you don't need to use IP blocks) but good in that the tools make failry sensible decisions.

It makes even more sense with huge devices like your Zynq (what chip is it on your board ?)

I shall change my habbits from now on !

RE: Cheap Cyclone 10

dang74 — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 15:37:10 GMT

Thank you Michael,

Three years ago I purchased a Cyclone IV board made by QMTECH. It is the same form factor as your board. I don't remember the exact price but it was very inexpensive and I've put it to good use in home projects.

I just may have to pick up this Cyclone 10 version as well.

RE: Cheap Cyclone 10

Jan Cumps — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 15:34:53 GMT

I'll check if the (inverse) array declaration gives issues in Xilinx.

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The validator doesn't complain, but I still have to go through the steps...

RE: Cheap Cyclone 10

14rhb — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 15:21:00 GMT

When trying to learn electronics on a small budget it can be a difficult decision whether to pay out for a reputable dev board or to opt for a low-cost one via the route you have identified. Therefore thankyou [mention:a5312e9762dd4699ba5d3876da34ffe5:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] for taking the latter step and showing us what such a low-cost board can achieve.