“…Despite being slower than ASICs, the hardwired circuits realized by FPGAs have a speed advantage of several orders of magnitude over the software solutions on general purpose processors (Reis & Jess, 2004). Other applications which employ FPGA devices include space and defence systems (Tessier & Burleson, 2001;Altera, 2011), prototyping systems (Banovic, 2005), medical systems (Altera, 2010) and many other relatively new developed markets such as language recognition, bioinformatics (HPCWire, 2009), cryptography (Prasanna & Dandalis, 2007) etc. The capacity of reprogramming the hardware during operation allowed programmable logic to take over a central role in digital systems.…”