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# 2. Results of Board Research
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## Board Requirements
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## 2.1. Board Requirements
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Two different boards were required for our hardware design courses: one board with a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and one board with a system on chip (SoC). In order to choose new hardware for our digital hardware design courses, two sets of requirements were formulated. These requirements were divided into hardware on the one hand, and software and toolchain on the other hand.
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We then created an overview over the available FPGAs/SoCs and specifically the availability of state-of-the-art development boards and development tools. The first research results had shown that only two manufacturers met our requirements referring to availability of the development boards and toolchain. These manufacturers were the two largest on the market, Altera and Xilinx. In the field of SoC/FPGA design, there are many different development boards supported by these two manufacturers. We therefore summed up our review results in a table reflecting our requirements. Based on the requirements, the features were evaluated for each board and a score was decided on. As mentioned before, we need two different development boards. For the scores for SoC boards and FPGA boards, see Figure 1 resp. Figure 2 below.
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## Board Selection
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## 2.2. Board Selection
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A wide range of SoC boards are offered on the market, and several of them were qualified. Figure 1 displays the qualified SoC development boards, ranked by the evaluation result.
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