I should add my personal opinion, too. FPGAs and comp arch can be fun, but are largely academic, IMO. Unless it's your _thing_, it just provides you with lots o

I should add my personal opinion, too. FPGAs and comp arch can be fun, but are largely academic, IMO. Unless it's your _thing_, it just provides you with lots of background knowledge when writing OS and systems level code. Messing around at the systems/OS/embedded level will be more fulfilling and scratch the same itches.