That’s exceedingly cool, and we can’t wait to see what people will build with a small, fast ARM board coupled to an FPGA.

But Tim Ansell pictured an ARM dev board that is almost completely ... He’s adaped the Tomu form factor to an FPGA board called Fomu with an active crowd funding campaign right now.

Developed by ARM in collaboration with Actel, the 32-bit ARM Cortex-M1 processor is the first ARM processor designed for FPGA implementation. With a balance between size and speed, the free Cortex-M1 ...

With FPGA packages exceeding 1,000 pins, with Ball Grid Array (BGA) solder bumps providing the interconnect, it is vitally important to make solid contact with the Printed Circuit Board (PCB).