Xilinx Protoboard
You will not believe this one.. This one is amazing! The spartan 3 FPGA board from Xilinx is for beginners in Field Programmable Gate Arrays. I have been sharing this board with a friend of mine last quarter as we were working together in the laboratory. I am absolutely amazed by what this little board can do! It has 200,000 gates (enough for beginners to mess with), 50 Mhz crystal oscillator clock, 2 blocks of 256K*16 SRAMs. Another thing that I like out of this board is that it has ports such as RS232 Serial, VGA, PS/2, Parallel Ports. This gives the flexibility to interface with other hardwares.. I have successfully design several modules such digital clock + alarm, keyboard interface, monitor interface, printer interface, FIFO, UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver and Transmitter) using RS232, several casino game modules, wheel controllers, and others .. 
I could not help it and order one for myself..
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