UltraSPARC T1 on a Xilinx FPGA

Interesting news … Sun and Xilinx jointly announced the availability of a development board with an UltraSPARC T1 processor on a Virtex-5 FPGA. You can buy a reference board with this FPGA at Digilent for 1999$ (750$ for academic purposes). As a full T1000 costs 2795$ list price this is maybe the cheapest way to get an UltraSPARC T1 for experimental purposes. ;) I´m not sure about this board, but other reference boards were able to boot Opensolaris …