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:
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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