How much did that cost you? Did you have to build it?
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,400,795&Prod=XUPV5Totally not worth it. $2000, or $750 for academic purposes (which these aren't). Only do this if you have such a board anyway for other things, to make some use of it in the time that it would otherwise be idle.
Great!!
What kind of FPGA is this? And, it seems to be a pci-e 1x board, while do you access it from a serial (?) cable?
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spiccioli.
This is an XC5VLX110T-1FF1136 running at 120MHz. If you want to build a dedicated mining board, I'd suggest placing a shitload of XC6SLX150 chips on it, and much less unused peripheral stuff.
And yes, it has PCIe 1x, but I didn't bother with that (neither from the FPGA nor PC side), RS232 is just easier and simply fast enough (roughly 3% bandwith utilization at 115200 baud).