Can anyone comment on how this compares to the popular Terasic DE10-Nano used for the MiSTer project? The price point is around the same and I see they note running video game cores as a market for this device, but I have absolutely no clue how to reasonably compare FPGAs.
From my rudimentary understanding it looks like this doesn't have a hard CPU and has a smaller FPGA, so I'm guessing we have a fair bit of "open hardware tax" at play here too.
“Open hardware tax” is huge here, your impression is correct. Real 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor is on Terasic board while this has a soft core processor. In my experience soft core can run at ~200 MHz best case. Then comes slower RAM and this limits overall possible applications. Unless somebody wants RISC-V badly.
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Can anyone comment on how this compares to the popular Terasic DE10-Nano used for the MiSTer project? The price point is around the same and I see they note running video game cores as a market for this device, but I have absolutely no clue how to reasonably compare FPGAs.
From my rudimentary understanding it looks like this doesn't have a hard CPU and has a smaller FPGA, so I'm guessing we have a fair bit of "open hardware tax" at play here too.
“Open hardware tax” is huge here, your impression is correct. Real 800MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor is on Terasic board while this has a soft core processor. In my experience soft core can run at ~200 MHz best case. Then comes slower RAM and this limits overall possible applications. Unless somebody wants RISC-V badly.