[duskwuff]

> Well, there's an Arduino FPGA board : the MKR Vidor 4000

It's an Arduino with an FPGA on it, yes. But the FPGA is practically a hood ornament: there is no support whatsoever for building gateware in the Arduino IDE, only for using a set of prebuilt demonstration bitstreams, and what little documentation Arduino has provided on using the FPGA (e.g. https://docs.arduino.cc/tutorials/mkr-vidor-4000/vidor-quart...) is extremely vague and is missing a lot of critical information.

(Additionally, some of the product specifications for the board are highly misleading -- for example, some pages refer to the edge connector as "mini PCI Express" and suggest that it can be used "to creat [sic] your own PCI interfaces", but the FPGA on the board does not support PCIe.)

You're much better off with a dedicated FPGA development board. Arduino hasn't brought anything useful to the table here.

[trotFunky]

Thanks for bringing more details into light ! As I've said I don't know much about the space and sadly suspected that it wouldn't be great, but not to this degree. It's a bit sad and it's not the "easy solution" that would have made it an easy choice for me if I were to tinker with FPGAs.

Not that you have an answer, but it makes me wonder what is the target audience for this board ?

[duskwuff]

> Not that you have an answer, but it makes me wonder what is the target audience for this board ?

I have a feeling that the primary audience for this product was Arduino's own management team, rather than any actual customer needs.