For "hard", I was implicitly referring to applications where existing compute throughput doesn't support the algorithm you want to run (which the example I was

For "hard", I was implicitly referring to applications where existing compute throughput doesn't support the algorithm you want to run (which the example I was thinking of [1] is precisely case 2 you have) 1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5747245 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5747245 Implementation of pin point landing vision components in an FPGA system for NASA stuff