Schazamp has built a free CoolRunner-II breakout board. He had success building a 8bit binary to 3X4bit decade converter which he will use to drive a 7 segment display via the 74hc4511 driver.
If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer.
Get the CoolRunner-II development board for $15 and XC9572XL dev-board for $15.