For $90, get this board: http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndKits/ECP5VersaDevelopmentKit.aspx http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/Developm

For $90, get this board: http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndKits/ECP5VersaDevelopmentKit.aspx http://www.latticesemi.com/Products/DevelopmentBoardsAndKits... Includes 45K LUT FPGA with 250KB on-die RAM, DDR3, controller license and PCIe.. Actually this is so cheap I wonder if they are about to discontinue it. Anyway, I otherwise think the capture the data with the DMA trick is cool. There are a bunch of projects which do the reverse: generate video with SPI output with tricks to make jitter free sync signals.