umm, no, I didn't ... I can barely justify the expense.
But I may have just tawked by boss into funding me an ultrascale board ...
Virtex, Kintex or Zynq, I have to see ...
That's the next year of your life gone, then
Don't understimate the complexity of the toolset, especially when it has to knit VHDL with timing and placement, with ARM peripherals, with ARM C code, with one or two different OSs (e.g. Linux on one core and an RTOS on the other).
Bonus points for understanding which files it is necessary and sufficient to store in a version control system.