January 5, 2021

Spartan 6

I saw a nice development board for one of these being sold on AliExpress for $32 and got interested. But I did not buy it.

I got somewhat discouraged when I learned that you don't use Vivado for it, but rather the older "ISE" software. This is fine I suppose and they say that ISE is smaller, simpler and maybe nicer than Vivado. At this point I don't want to deal with two learning curves.

It is tempting.

To find the AliExpress listing, try "FPGA Development Board Xilinx Spartan-6 XC6SLX9 Card" if the above link goes dead.
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