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Hi, Manuel,

Hi Manuel,
  I suggest you consider the new Spartan 3A Evaluation kit, that costs only
US$ 39,00. Spartan 3A is the spartan series low cost i/o optimised FPGA.

Comments: http://www.pldesignline.com/products/207401864
Online Sales:http://www.em.avnet.com/spartan3a-evl
Block Diagram:
http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/s3a_evl_block_diagram%20042508.pdf
Product Brief:
http://www.em.avnet.com/ctf_shared/evk/df2df2usa/xlx_s3a_evl-pb062308F.pdf

  Spartan 3E
(http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable),
that uou´ve cited, is a too a good options, but is more expensive.

Tks,

Jardel.

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:40:29 -0700 (PDT), xu jianfeng <xjf77@y...>
wrote:
> Hi, Manuel,
> First, it's hard to say where you should start, coz you don't mention
what
> is your intention/application.
> In general, Spartan-3E is a good starting kit for beginner. Well, we are
> talking about Xilinx stuff(provide that you will choose one of Xilinx
> FPGA). Spartan series FPGA could offer a soft-processor ip(Microblaze by
> Xilinx) while the Virtex-II Pro and above contains one or more hard-core
> PowerPC. It's up to your performance/budget to decide which will be your
> choice.
> Xilinx itself provides couples of demo applications in various fields,
you
> can simply download from web and configure to your FPGA, let alone
abundant
> third-party examples/tutorials.
> JTAG interface is one of the download options.
> Anyway, try to investigate a little bit in Xiinx website(Altera), you
will
> have a rough idea about what shall you do.
> regards,
> Jeffsen
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "mgiannos2000@y..." <mgiannos2000@y...>
> To: cores@o...
> Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 7:46:33 PM
> Subject: [oc] newbie in FPGA & CPLD field
> 
> Hello to everyone.
>   I'm totally new to this field so I would appreciate any help. I
> notice that you guys have developed a lot of  "cores" matching some of
> my applications. I want to get into the world of fpga's so any hint
> from where i can start? I know that there are a lot of dev kits such
> as the SPARTAN-3E. Is this one a good point of start? Does any of the
> cores developed by you are downloadable to this kit? Is it possible to
> get done through the JTAG interface of these devices?
> thank you for any response
> Manuel Giannos
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