A critical advantage of these new FPGA boards is not only are they at the same price point like Arduino clones and many other common maker components, but they are also small enough to be useful as permanent component in a project.<p>With earlier FPGA Learning boards, the designers tried to cram a ton of stuff into them, usually a gazillion pins, leds, input devices and connectors. You can't easily put that on a Raspberry Pi or Arduino.