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When looking for an FPGA development board one important factor of course is the FPGA itself and although there are a lot of specs for an FPGA you should at least consider the FPGA's clock speed, the memory blocks it has, how many logic elements (LEs) the FPGA has as well as how many I/O connections provided by the FPGA and how many are available on the development board for your own use as general purpose I/O. Of course if you buy such a development board that uses an external configuration device ensure that it is included or you'll have to source one elsewhere.
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An FPGA board that uses an external configuration device has the advantage that the board can be smaller than if the device was on-board but it is very convenient to have such a configuration circuit built-in.
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The board will likely also have some kind of interface to a PC for configuration and debugging, which may either be a USB port if the board contains an on-board programmer (such as a USB Blaster) or some other connector, such as JTAG, for connection to an external device to do the configuration. A relatively cheap and straightforward means to try out different FPGAs is by using an FPGA development board which contains an FPGA, power circuitry, I/O connectors and possibly I/O devices, like switches, LEDs, and so on.