ben wrote about FPGA boards:
My beef is that all the low cost boards, still needed
to connected
the PC
for use. You can't burn and go.
I've got about a dozen low-cost boards from the fairly ancient Spartan 2
through the latest Spartan 6, and not a one of them doesn't have
nonvolatile memory into which you can program the configuration
bitstream. What low-cost boards have you looked at that don't have
nonvolatile memory?