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by cottonseed 3979 days ago
Digilent has a bunch of FPGA boards:

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?NavPath=2,40...

The DE0-Nano-SoC, which has an FPGA and a dual-core Cortex A9 might be a good option if you wanted to get started with Altera parts:

https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=...

The analogous Xilinx board is probably the Zedboard:

http://zedboard.org/

Finally, you might consider the Lattice Semiconductor iCE40. There are two dev boards (small and large, both very cheap):

http://latticesemi.com/iCEstick

http://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndK...

They are especially attractive since they have the only fully open source toolchain:

https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr

Have fun!