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Support for cheapest FPGAs on the market

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Hello,
i've searched the Aliexpress for absolute cheapest FPGA boards and i've found very cheap devices that i think might be worth supporting:

- Noname chinese bargain FPGAs
- https://hackaday.com/2019/11/03/the-5-fpga/
- gowin GW1N-1 (>1k LUT4, development board for $9, free worldwide shipping)
- Anlogic EG4S20 (20k LUT4/LUT5 mix, development board for $18, free worldwide shipping)
- Cheap FPGA development boards
- Intel/Altera Cyclone II EP2C5 (4.6k LUT, development board for $12, free worldwide shipping or JLCPCB PCBA)
- Intel/Altera Max II EPM240 (~200 Macrocell **CPLD**, development board for $7, free worldwide shipping or JLCPCB PCBA)
- Bit more expensive, but still reachable aliexpress deals:
- Intel/Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE22 (22k LUT, $26, also available in JLCPCB SMD PCBA assembly service)
- Intel/Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE10 (10k LUT, $24, also available in JLCPCB SMD PCBA assembly service)
- Intel/Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE6 (6k LUT, $19)
- Xilinx Spartan6 XC6SLX16-FTG256 (14.4k LUT, $18)
- Xilinx Spartan6 XC6SLX25 (??k LUT, $22, also JLCPCB PCBA)

I think that support for these inexpensive devices might help get FPGA to hobbyists and schools (including developing countries).

To be clear i didn't mentioned ICEBreaker development board with Lattice ICE40 shipped for $30 USD from Aliexpress, which is my top favourite right now. But it is already very well supported by icestorm project, so no need to discuss that in this issue.

https://github.com/icebreaker-fpga/icebreaker
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000260409783.html

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