Barriers to designing with FPGAs?

I am interested to obtain people's thoughts on what is stopping them diving into FPGAs. I have my own theories on this subject and will share these as this discussion develops.

I look forward to hearing your views,

Thanks in advance,

Simon

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D_Hersey over 11 years ago +2

I feel that FPGAs are a solution seeking a problem to a certain extent. It is a law of commodities that the first sip has the greatest worth. Making them bigger and bigger when they are already really…
johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to cstanton +2

Christopher Stanton wrote: Altera appear to have Quartus, which costs money? Xilinix appears to require licensing, there's some comment on a free version or evanulation but it's not clear what the…
johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to tekmeister +2

tekmeister wrote: For me the barriers are cost and power. These days I can pick up a MCU dev board for ~25USD, or a Raspberry Pi for ~35USD. A decent FPGA dev board costs an order of magnitude more…

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Shishir 1 month ago

Reading all these comments, experienced developers sharing their experiences and views, looks like having found a lost treasure. Great knowledge.
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Reading all these comments, experienced developers sharing their experiences and views, looks like having found a lost treasure. Great knowledge.
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