Sipeed Tang Primer 20K Gowin GW2A FPGA GoAI Development Board Kit Minimum System with DSP LvDs Interface and BSRAM Resources onboard 1GB DDR3 and PMIC Running RISC-V Code

Excellent starting fpga and shipping was excellent. Packaged safely and no damage

This board works with the open source tools: Yosys, nextpnr-himbaechel, gowin_pack, and flashed with openFPGALoader. The shared video shows it running a MIPS core with a program to flash 2 LEDs built with all open source tools. This is a really beautiful board and looking forward to learning how to interface with the network chip and the RAM.

Good if you want to get technical—the expansion board offers a lot of hacking opportunities—but if you’re just looking to mess with existing cores (say, if you want a low-cost MiSTER alternative), the community support on this one is a little weak, with just an outdated NES core available. The main Github projects seem to have abandoned this board in favor of the Nanos and the Megas. So if you just want to screw around with cores rather than learning some low-level FPGA design, get one of those. Too bad. Looked promising.

I stupidly thought that to reset the device while plugged in, I could flip switch 1 to off. Do not do that. It will corrupt the drivers. Implement your own reset switch. Other than that, it works well.