Well you made a laconic, non-substantive reply so you ought to expect pushback. FGPAs allow near-ASIC speeds with effectively the flexibility of software in th

Well you made a laconic, non-substantive reply so you ought to expect pushback. FGPAs allow near-ASIC speeds with effectively the flexibility of software in that they can be updated via firmware upgrades, with much cheaper dev. costs than ASICs. They do have a higher unit cost than ASICs but only at high volume. For anything that is 'low' volume an ASIC may not make financial sense at all in any case. I am no expert in DPI specifically but Google suggests that using FPGAs for DPI is an active commercial topic.