A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGAs) is a small Field Programmable Device (FPD) that supports thousands of logic gates. FPGA is a high speed, low cost, short time to market and small device size. Technically speaking an FPGA can be... more

A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGAs) is a small Field Programmable Device (FPD) that supports thousands of logic gates. FPGA is a high speed, low cost, short time to market and small device size. Technically speaking an FPGA can be used to solve any problem which is computable. This is trivially proven by the fact FPGA can be used to implement a Soft microprocessor. Their advantage lies in that they are sometimes significantly faster for some applications due to their parallel nature and optimality in terms of the number of gates used for a certain process. Specific applications of FPGAs include digital signal processing, software-defined radio, ASIC prototyping, medical imaging, computer vision, speech recognition, nonlinear control, cryptography, bioinformatics, computer hardware emulation, radio astronomy, metal detection and a growing range of other areas. Traditionally, FPGAs have been reserved for specific vertical applications where the volume of production is small. For t...

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