<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">"Snickerdoodle" by <a href="http://krtkl.com" class="">krtkl.com</a> looks interesting: <a href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle" class="">https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zynq 7010 or 7020, .5/1GB, Wi-fi, etc. Also has some related boards (PiSmasher...). RTOS or Linux.</div><div class="">For FPGA dev you have to use Xilinx "Vivado". This should allow simulation as well.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom Skibo has ported FreeBSD to varius Zynq based boards such as Zedboard, Zybo, Parallela and Snickerdoodle: <a href="http://www.skibo.net/zedbsd/" class="">http://www.skibo.net/zedbsd/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also of interest may be SpinalHDL, a high level HDL (the compiler maps it to VHDL or Verilog, after which you can use the usual closed source tools from Xilinx etc.!). SpinalHDL is actually a Scala library. You can't translate arbitrary Scala code to VHD/Verilog but a constrained subset. Supposedly takes away some of the drudgery of VHDL/Verilog. SpinalHDL is similar to Chisel from UCB. <a href="http://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc/" class="">http://spinalhdl.github.io/SpinalDoc/</a> There is example 32 bit wide RISC-V soft core and Crypto at <a href="https://github.com/SpinalHDL" class="">https://github.com/SpinalHDL</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 18, 2017, at 7:02 AM, Henry Baker <<a href="mailto:hbaker1@pipeline.com" class="">hbaker1@pipeline.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Does anyone sell a cheap, easy-to-experiment with, FPGA?<br class=""><br class="">Ideally, something small, powered by USB, perhaps with a<br class="">standard ARM-like (or MIPS-like) CPU to fire it up.<br class=""><br class="">What sort of SW tools are available -- e.g., C-like<br class="">compilers, emulators, etc. ?<br class=""><br class="">If standard CPU chips won't cut it for crypto, perhaps<br class="">it's time for us sheeple to start experimenting with FPGA's.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>