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solderless breadboard + fpga + smt-adaptable socket?

Please forgive me if I screw up some of the terminology here, I'm new to actual physical manipulation of hardware...

I'm looking for a quick, cheap solution that will give me some solderless breadboard space, a socket that I can put an SMT chip into (probably via some sort of adapter, which is okay), and a Xilinx or Altera low-end FPGA. A cyclone would probably be ideal since I need very few gates -- "no FPGA too small" and I'm trying to keep costs down.

Basically I'm looking for this with an FPGA already on it:

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I'm looking for this because I just stumbled across a supply of very cheap (but somewhat nonstandard) GPS chips, and I need to test out the samples I got before I order more. I'd also like to reuse this board later for other similar projects.

I'll also need some way of programming the FPGA from a computer; JTAG or serial is fine, USB would be even better.

Thanks!

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Adam Megacz
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Instead of an FPGA board that includes a breadboard, why not a breadboard where you plug a "DIP" FPGA board? Like this

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You populate the board sides with headers and it becomes a 24 pins "FPGA DIP chip". You configure it through a PC's serial port.

Jean

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Jean Nicolle

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