I just bought a couple of boards with an Altera Cyclone II FPGA, voltage regulators, 50MHz clock, flash chip and JTAG connectors for $20 each delivered. The FPGA itself is over $10.
eBay item 150835820710 Well made and works great. Mate it with a $10 JTAG dongle (eBay item 160912291115) and you have no excuse not to take the FPGA plunge :) Nice platform for TIC/GPSDO controller experiments. Didier KO4BB On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Bob Camp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I would add that there is a whole empire of hobby board builders in Asia. > If you are willing to take a chance on them, the prices can be quite > reasonable. > > Bob > > On Jan 5, 2013, at 9:45 PM, gary <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If the manufacturer sells the part directly, I just buy it. I did that > with the MSP430 as someone on the list suggested. But if they only sell by > the reel, it is perfectly acceptable to ask for a freebie. Case in point > are ceramic filters. They are dirt cheap, but nobody wants to stock them > since there are few customers for them. That is, the volume of the product > is high, but not many companies buy them. I did some radio mods and Murata > was nice enough to sample me a few filters. > > > > Note with some chips, it is often better to look for eval boards made by > hobby companies like Sparkfun. I did that with an ADI accelerometer. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
