It's also worth considering Xilinx Zync (FPGA with an ARM Cortex A9 in the package) boards. EG Digilent's: http://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-programmable-logic/

It's also worth considering Xilinx Zync (FPGA with an ARM Cortex A9 in the package) boards. EG Digilent's: http://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-programmable-logic/by-technology/zynq/ http://store.digilentinc.com/fpga-programmable-logic/by-tech... Not cheap without the 50% educational discount, but very powerful for some workloads. Then again if you have one of those workloads you probably are already using an FPGA...