I think the development of and move away from closed source development tools and license models is the key for hardware accelerators. We have tried to acceler

I think the development of and move away from closed source development tools and license models is the key for hardware accelerators. We have tried to accelerate different domain specific tasks with FPGAs but the development cost and effort keeps being to much compared to well written and smarter software. Sure there is a case for some very computational intensive tasks but I think the really interesting part is when you can safely high level program these things.