Greg Davill / OrangeCrabECP5intermediateconfidence 3/5
OrangeCrab

Compact open-source Lattice ECP5 board commonly used with LiteX, USB and open-source ECP5 flows.

LFE5U-25F/85Fopen toolchainprice unknownrisc-vlinuxusbeducation
TerasicMAX 10beginnerconfidence 3/5
DE10-Lite

Terasic MAX 10 educational board for Intel FPGA introductory labs.

10M50DAF484C7Gprice unknowneducationcontrol
FieldOrangeCrabDE10-Lite
ChipLFE5U-25F/85F10M50DAF484C7G
FamilyECP5MAX 10
Device typeFPGAFPGA
Priceunknownunknown
ToolchainsYosys + nextpnr + Project TrellisIntel Quartus Prime
Open toolchainyesno
InterfacesUSB, MicroSDVGA, USB-Blaster
MemoryDDR3 requires revision checkSDRAM requires Terasic manual verification
Documentation6575
Difficultyintermediatebeginner
Openness score9210
Where to get helpOrangeCrab GitHub organizationTerasic support
Typical risksFeature set differs across OrangeCrab revisions; verify exact revision.MAX 10 is not a Linux-on-FPGA target; use for digital logic and peripheral labs.
Better foropen-source flowbeginner learning