Hi, I was going to ask this in my other thread in general chat about Ordering from Mouser, but here seems more appropriate.
So, I used Lattice parts in university, and since moved to Altera but one cannot ignore the £20 MachXO2/3 boards - everything you need to get started, but no bells-whistles. Looks almost like an Arduino of the FPGA word, disposable boards. But there are two, the original based on the LCMXO2-7000, and one with LCMXO3LF-6900. The newer one (XO3) is slightly cheaper, but other than that I'm finding it hard to tell them apart. Sure the XO3 is newer, but they have pretty much the same no. of LUT's, same amount of block RAM, same hardened peripherals.
Whilst I would probably go for the newer XO3, is there any major difference between these two devices? I gathered both boards have 3.3V IO voltage, similar layout etc.. I noticed mike (mikeselectricstuff) used the machXO2 and was praising it - so I gather thats tried and tested, but if the XO3 is pretty much the same, or 'better' in someway, then I might as well go for that.
Cheers!