I am also interested to use the Sata core from opencores .I have a project to design a data encription unit for magnetic Storage .And i also looking for a good FPGA part .I have been looking at the Lattice FPGA. It is a very cheap part and it has very fast SERDES . I just bought the LatticeECP3 Versa kit .
thank you !my boss ask me to research the FC-AE part of the project first. my project maybe use a raid cad which is based on PCI-E interface.The detail of it has not been decided.Mre communication please!