"...programming FPGAs is still an order of magnitude more difficult than programming instruction based systems." True statement. If you're offloading computatio

"...programming FPGAs is still an order of magnitude more difficult than programming instruction based systems." True statement. If you're offloading computation from a CPU, profile your application first, and determine if the FPGA board's architecture will allow you to improve performance. Don't underestimate the cost of communicating data to/from the FPGA/CPU.