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My son is a 1st year Computer Engineering student and is interested in using FPGAs for some projects he is working on at home. I am looking for recommendations on what might be best for a beginner. Probably most important are: free/low-cost tools, beginner books, tutorials and/or on-line training, and low-cost dev boards. He is already familiar with 74XX-series logic, Intel 8051 microcontrollers, C/C++ and Java.

It seems like the two popular brands are Altera and Xilinx. I have already ordered Altera Cyclone II and Altera Cyclone IV boards for $15 and $25 from an eBay seller in Shenzhen, but if Xilinx or another manufacturer would be better, I would try those as well.

Any thoughts/experiences/links that you can share would really be appreciated.

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I've seen many FPGA topics get discussed extensively on HackerNews.
I have the impression that quite a few replies are from people who are knowledgeable and actually working in that field.
Try posting a "Ask HN" question there (https://news.ycombinator.com/ask) - you may get replies from people knowledgeable in the field.
Here are some topics that have come up in the past: search FPGA on HN
 
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Great resource - thanks Karthik.
 
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