I did my final year project using a Xilinx FPGA back around 1992. We put some image processing algorithms for fingerprint processing onto it for adaptive thresh

I did my final year project using a Xilinx FPGA back around 1992. We put some image processing algorithms for fingerprint processing onto it for adaptive thresholding and line thinning. There was a lecturer who was very into hardware software co-design but had got quite disillusioned with it as general purpose CPUs just kept getting faster and faster.