> However, you need to be able to do physical design of those transistors if you want to do anything that couldn't actually be done on an FPGA Only if you don

> However, you need to be able to do physical design of those transistors if you want to do anything that couldn't actually be done on an FPGA Only if you don't care about power consumption or speed. Just having a hard implementation of something instead of on an FPGA can be a marked improvement. (that said I agree it would be much more interesting to be able to design more directly).