FPGA
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FPGA (plural FPGAs)
(electronics) Initialism of field-programmable gate array.
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An alternate approach to using hard-macro processors is to make use of soft processor cores that are implemented within the FPGA logic.
A number of firms provide hardware-based FPGA cryptographic analysis solutions from a single FPGA PCI Express card up to dedicated FPGA computers.
As mentioned above, attempts have also been made to replicate the Amiga chipset in FPGA chips.
For example, can you put the Pocket into sleep mode, and will developers’ work on FPGA cores outlive the Pocket?
For instance, debugging a software- (and microprocessor-) centric embedded system is different from debugging an embedded system where most of the processing is performed by peripherals (DSP, FPGA, co-processor).
History The FPGA industry sprouted from programmable read-only memory (PROM) and programmable logic devices (PLDs).