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by olouv 4745 days ago
You can have a small FPGA test board here http://be.eurocircuits.com/shop/offtheshelf/product.aspx?&an... for 60€. The tutorials (non-free) can be found there http://www.elektor.com/magazines/2012/december/taming-the-be...
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That only addresses the one point (expense of the test boards), which as I pointed out, is the one major problem that has been solved (I consider a $90 dev board reasonably affordable for tinkering, so a $70 dev board is better, but not by much).

It doesn't seem to solve the other two problems, though I suspect that solving the second (lack of open tools) would go a long way towards solving the third as well (ubiquity of hardware available to target).