FPGAs are arguably the best way to get into hardware reverse engineering for many reasons. The most obvious one according to me is the experience in what I've to term "raw clockiness" (or the practice of making a real hardware backed clock; do exactly what you want). There is a certain romanticism of freshly broken set theory and deep repressed proof theory sins that comes to bare for me when I'm exposed to this kind of computing. All other kinds tend to veil this shaky, sometimes deeply CO...