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Very true, and especially with shorter time to market on items and shorter life cycles, and the nasty habit to send stuff to consumers without fully testing it and having bugs and just fixing it with firmware updates later.
Nice, here is Arrows offering at $30 and with built in programmer and more goodies than the other board, but no stock yet, and their edge connector that is expensive, but I have an adaptor for it already:http://parts.arrow.com/item/detail/arrow-development-tools/bemicromax10Edit fixed embedded image and added description:Board HighlightsFeatures Altera MAX® 10 FPGA with 8,000 Logic Elements, ADC block, temperature sense diode, onchip-RAM, user flash memory and non-volatile self-configuration.Extensible via 2 Digital PMOD Interface headersAllows for further expansion from two 40-pin prototyping headersOne MAX® 10 FPGA (10M08DAF484C8G) 8,000 LEs414 Kbit (Kb) M9K memory256 Kbit (Kb) user flash memory2 phase locked loops (PLLs)24 18x18-bit multipliers1 ADC block – 1 MSa/sec, 12-bit, 18-channels17 analog inputs1 temperature sense diode250 general purpose input/output (GPIO)Non-volatile self-configuration with dual-boot supportClocking circuitry50 MHz oscillator24 MHz oscillatorExternal peripherals8MB SDRAM (4Mb x 16) (ISSI IS42S16400)Accelerometer, 3-Axis, SPI interface (Analog Devices ADXL362)DAC, 12-bit, SPI interface (Analog Devices AD5681)Temperature sensor, I2C interface (Analog Devices ADT7420)Thermal resistorPhoto resistorGeneral user input / output8 user LEDs2 user PushbuttonsPrototypingTwo 6-pin PMOD expansion headersTwo 40-pin prototyping headers which provide access to 64 digital I/O6 analog inputsOne 80-pin BeMicro card edge connector
I got two of those last week. Haven't had a chance to play with them yet. They are almost small FPGA breakout boards but not quite.
Lattice iCE40 LP is offered in 32QFN package.But I guess not so much resources inside
According to the MAX 10 PDF from Altera the EQFP 144 package is actually 0.5 mm pitch (22 mm square) and not 0.4 mm. So they are at least usable for hand soldering (drag soldering) and should be easy on pick&place machines. There seem to be a single voltage version in that package too:http://www.altera.com/literature/br/br-max10-brochure.pdf#page=4Best regardsNeni
Nice, here is Arrows offering at $30 and with built in programmer and more goodies than the other board, but no stock yet, and their edge connector that is expensive, but I have an adaptor for it already
Quote from: miguelvp on September 30, 2014, 05:32:10 pmNice, here is Arrows offering at $30 and with built in programmer and more goodies than the other board, but no stock yet, and their edge connector that is expensive, but I have an adaptor for it alreadyTaking a look to the BEMICROMAX10 I can see that it has a connector labeled as "USB_Blaster_JTAG" which I assume is the edge connector you are referring to (and that can be seen in the image). Can I use this USB_Blaster_JTAG instead of a $300usd USB Blaster to program the "MAX 10 FPGA Evaluation Kit" https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/kit-max-10-evaluation.html?Regards.
The edge connector is the 80 pin one