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Nice development board for $20, even if it takes some work. Bought one!



It's too late now since you've already bought one, but right now, it's still a doorstop than can't be used for anything: I haven't even been able to get one of the LEDs blinking, and that's only the Hello World of the FPGA hobbyist.


No worries. As the saying goes "this isn't my first rodeo". I'll let you know what I discover.


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One thing that didn’t make it in the blog post was that a strategically soldered wire shortened the JTAG chain to only include the 2 Intel chips and bypass the AHA chips.

The power to the AHA chips gets cut off at some point, breaking the JTAG chain, but the FPGAs stay active.

So by bypassing, you keep the chain alive.


It is interesting to see how the prices have come down. While just the FPGA chip on this board was originally $1K, a new DE10 board is ~$130 with slightly more logic units at a higher clock, plus a dual core ARM A9, peripherals, etc.


. o O (And the MISTer project for lots of great retro systems/consoles/games...)




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