You're right, I wouldn't want to write my own PCI slave and have it crash my PC. Unless the board developer already took care of that, it's probably better to g

You're right, I wouldn't want to write my own PCI slave and have it crash my PC. Unless the board developer already took care of that, it's probably better to go with standalone board for now. I hope we'll see more convenient FPGA development boards that will be no more hassle to use than an extra videocard in your PC now, as Moore's law hits the wall and FPGA's become more ubiquitous.