On 3/31/2016 1:38 PM, ethan at 
757.org wrote:
   A raspberry pi
2 fits in an even smaller box, and is a lot cheaper... 
 FPGA can be configured to match the original hardware. Pis run Linux and
 then app on it which makes performence unstable?
 
 
FPGA's can match the  TIMING and HARDWARE BUGS better, if given half a
chance.
  --
 Ethan O'Toole