DSP application project managers are looking for four things: high performance, risk reduction, shortened time to market, and reuseability. The industry has long accepted the truth that a properly programmed field programmable gate array (FPGA) solution outperforms a general-purpose or digital signal processor (DSP). The availability of world-class COTS FPGA-based processing boards with standardized high-speed I/O interfaces, like Fibre Channel 2 and 1.5 GHz A/D, and a new data flow FPGA application development tool enables quick, low risk, reuseable application development, to bring DSP applications to market within a few months – from product definition through prototyping, to deployment.