I've enjoyed working through tutorials with this board.
#Automation vs gearcity software
What I like about webfpga is that you don't have to setup anything at all since the software is web based. But getting the software going might be painful. I took a look at the NANDLandGo board mentioned below, and it looks pretty nice. It an easy entry point to allow you to learn Verilog. If you like the idea of opensource and an easy starting point, take a look at and their ShastaPlus board. $100+ new), as well as a Litefury (Xilinx chip) by RHS Research ($99 on Amazon), but I also picked up a $30 (now $38) ICE board from and another $40 for some additional hardware from them. I picked up a NEXSYS A7 board with a Xilinex FPGA (Digilent $200), and a used Terasic DEO board with an Altera FPGA ($30 used. My approach was to pick up a board from each of the major ones and work through a few dozen examples with each. Altera is pretty good as well, but the environment is not a nice as Xilinx in my opinion. ICE is opensource, which is nice but you lose a lot of time trying to figure it out. My preference is Xilinx because I perfer the Vavado software. Your first step is to pick a line of boards.
Hundreds of reasons why, which we can discuss. You will see some arguments between Verilog and VHDL. Well, your first step is probably to learn Verilog. It's great stuff and I would definately recommend you take some time to learn what you can about FPGAs. I started a similar path a year or so ago.
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