I have been learning about fpga's for a month now, and stumbled across the merec web site.
I am looking for a dev board with 20000-30000 LC's and two jumped out at me. The DS-KIT-4VLX25LC and DS-KIT-3SMB1500 both are in that range. One is a virtex 4 the other a spartan 3. I cannot figure out why the spartan board is twice the price of the virtex 4 board. The spartan has only 5k more lc's while the V4 has more Dsp/multiplier units and
features... I could see some difference due to the 5k LC's, but twice?
What am I missing?