Sounds cool, but worth pointing out that the Parallela is Zynq based, and so comes with a Xilinx FPGA built into the SoC that includes the dual ARM cores. The FPGA provides the "glue" for the Epiphany chip to talk to the CPU, but there's plenty of spare capacity.

The more the merrier, though. I wish I had time to play with FPGA's - I have a Minimig (Amiga reimplementation where the custom chips are all in an FPGA) and I'm on the list for an FPGA Replay (targeting FPGA reimplementation of assorted home computers including the Amiga, and arcade machines in an FPGA).

Nice! Even CC-by-sa licensed!

Do you know how its Spartan-6 XC6SLX9 compares to the Zynq 7010 on the Parallela?

If they are roughly equal, I guess the Parallela is a better deal since it has an ARM too.

Too bad Icarus Verilog can't synthesize at all anymore, Xilinx ISE is very heavy-weight and not FOSS. And they both use that.