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I suppose you could use the aurdino as a management controller for the others, but yeah you’ve got a point.

I think the point is that the FPGA can handle very high speed IO in hardware, the ESP32 can host the application software and handle the communications.

The Arduino provides power supply and maybe low-speed peripherals like GPIO... (sarc)

Still awesome feature set and price point. I'm seriously thinking about using this standalone.

Well... medium speed I/O. "High speed" in an FPGA context would imply a 5+ Gbit SERDES, which the Spartan-7 doesn't have and the connectors on this board wouldn't support anyway.

Think of it as an ESP32 + FPGA with the arduino as a bag on the side providing features not available to the other two (e.g. power, standardized IDE, etc...)

It's for blog cred

https://xkcd.com/730/