I've been wanting to learn FPGA to build hardware accelerated compression for external storage[1], Would these HW be a good start? [1] https://needgap.com/prob

I've been wanting to learn FPGA to build hardware accelerated compression for external storage[1], Would these HW be a good start? [1] https://needgap.com/problems/102-external-storage-with-hardware-compression-asic-fpga https://needgap.com/problems/102-external-storage-with-hardw... (Disclaimer: My validation platform).