And then you finally get the courage to throw it away only to have an exact application where it would have been useful a couple of weeks later.

Yeah I don’t get it either. I work in aviation and we use fpgas so we can do field upgrades since physical hw changes are not that common in the industry. None of these handhels look like they support fpga image updates. My only guess is that they dont sell enough volume to make ASICs due to economies of scale.

I remember doing it a lot during a long kiss goodnight water torture scene.