FPGA, so the higher power draw is expected. But the massive
parallelism of the FPGA combined with I/O expandability,
and field programmability compensates for the extra power
draw.
Based on results of the implementation, use cases for soft
processor cores are estimated in Table 5. Soft processor
cores are particularly useful if the general computing task is
small. However, even if the processing complexity increases,
a tradeoff can be made between choosing a bigger soft
processor core versus the signal processing logic required for
a particular FPGA.