Zet processor is an open implementation of the so widely used IA-32 architecture (generally called x86). It is implemented in Verilog and can be synthesized for FPGAs. One of the supported development boards is the Altera DE1 Board. DE1 only has one PS/2 port so mouse is not supported on that board. But the board has many IO-ports and the mouse PS/2 pins are mapped to some of the IO pins.

I recently tried Bitcoin mining on a Arrow SoCKIT development board and concluded that Bitcoin mining was to hard given my hardware. Therefore I decided to try Litecoin mining on my SoCKIT. The algorithm used for Litecoin is scrypt. It is supposed to be harder to use FPGAs and ASICs to do Litecoin mining compared to Bitcoin mining. As a starting point i used FPGA-Litecoin-Miner from github. I ported the code for the BeMicro development board to the SoCKIT.

I wanted to try Bitcoin mining on FPGA just to see how hard it really is. I have to use some electricity for heating this time of year so I can just as well use some for Bitcoin mining. I have a Arrow SoCKIT development board. The board contains a Altera SoC which is a combination of a ARM processor and a FPGA. For this project the ARM processor will not be used.