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Offline NiHaoMikeTopic starter

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$20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« on: December 09, 2023, 12:15:37 am »
https://www.ebay.com/itm/265967136205
Too bad (from what I can tell from a quick search) it requires the paid version of Quartus to use...
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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2023, 03:54:48 pm »
Have you used this board?
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2023, 06:21:20 pm »
For $20 I'd buy the thing and store it away for a little while until the free tier of Quartus supports it, heck if they shipped to the UK there'd be a couple on the way already.
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2023, 05:28:11 pm »
At least some random person on Reddit says it's a stratix V.  That's likely never going to be supported by the free version of quartus.
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2023, 08:55:04 am »
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2024, 09:17:18 pm »
Got this board here. I am looking for other tinkerers to play with this board.
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2024, 12:44:39 pm »
Got this board here. I am looking for other tinkerers to play with this board.
Got the board here as well

Win10
Quartus 15.0 with Stratix V devices installed and can compile projects.
Quartus 20.1 lite programmer with a clone USB blaster connected to J5 (pretty slow)

https://github.com/tow3rs/jtag-mpsse-blaster
Compiled in VS2019 and copied the "jtag_hw_mpsse.dll" to the ALTERA\20.1\quartus\bin64 folder
Now the you can program over the USB cable way faster and don't have to find a 2x4 2.0mm pitch IDC connector  :)

What kind of project do you have in mind?
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2024, 09:51:53 pm »
Wow! Seems like you are a lot further than me. I only programmed the cyclone 2 mini dev board and my de0 nano cyclone 4 board so far.

I write tradebots (currently mainly for crypto) and want to implement some of the code as verilog in a fpga. Would like to code ethernet connections etc.

PS: sent you a PM
« Last Edit: January 04, 2024, 10:09:23 pm by daybyter2 »
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2024, 09:14:44 pm »
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155967025111

I wonder if anyone tried this board? Is it amd/intel based?
 

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Re: $20 FPGA board with 2x8 PCIe and 2x QSFP
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2024, 01:40:20 pm »
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155967025111

I wonder if anyone tried this board? Is it amd/intel based?
I could not find any reference as to what FPGA it uses so it's a gamble as to whether or not it would work with the free tools.
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