I've made this post about cheap FPGA kits: http://www.embarcados.com.br/kitsdsvfpga/ http://www.embarcados.com.br/kitsdsvfpga/ You can check it out, it's in po

I've made this post about cheap FPGA kits: http://www.embarcados.com.br/kitsdsvfpga/ http://www.embarcados.com.br/kitsdsvfpga/ You can check it out, it's in portuguese but the figures/names/prices are in english/dollars. FPGAs should be used more often then they are. If you are doing a lot of things (or can do) in parallel, that's what you want a FPGA for.