I would love to have some real application that needs an FPGA :) Someday perhaps.

You would perhaps need to change the viewpoint for that. Theoretically, there is nothing which can't be achieved - functionally - without FPGA. However, that doesn't mean some problems can' be solved more conveniently using FPGA, and the solutions turn out better in some regards.

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atultw 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Could you share some of those applications which are better solved with an FPGA? As a student I have some ideas but am interested to hear more.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		OTOH, I recently learnt that Jane street deploys their own FPGA servers for high frequency trade.