@arulbero

Well said, the information above should be very useful for those new to the area.

Also as it relates to FPGAs, those are more suited for binary curves; and GPUs such as RTX 2080Tis, RX Vega 64, and the likes are well suited for prime curves $ for $.

If you would like to play around with FPGAs and ECDSA (secp256k1), everything you need to start is right here:
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zcash-fpga