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Field Programmable Gate Arrays: a 2011 Overview

Friday, May 6, 2011
By: Mike Hutton / Altera
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Summary

Increasing ASIC development cost has pushed more and more designs into programmable logic and FPGAs, once restricted to prototype and glue logic, experienced 50% growth in 2010. This article gives an overview of the underlying architecture of FPGAs, recent trends in commercial offerings, and some of the research topics around FPGAs, along with discussion of the new application domains for programmable hardware.

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