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What are you using FPGAs for?

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I rarely use FPGAs. I mostly have stuck in other embedded development environments during my career. But, how are you using FPGAs these days?

 

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    I'm accustomed to using FPGAs for signal cleaning applications, when a precision output is important.   The simple programmable logic allows for only a specific set ot signals to be allowed passage, with all others removed, even if they're unknown.  It takes the guesswork out of building a hard-wired circuit solution, gives way more parallelization of the operations, and allows for refactoring later.  Of course, that also makes it an excellent prototyping platform for optimization prior to developing custom implementations.  On the other hand, the FPGA is simpler than higher-level (software-based) solutions in that signals don't need to be transformed in order to filter them, eliminating quite a few computational steps, and removing the need for more complicated circuitry to run the software.
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    I'm accustomed to using FPGAs for signal cleaning applications, when a precision output is important.   The simple programmable logic allows for only a specific set ot signals to be allowed passage, with all others removed, even if they're unknown.  It takes the guesswork out of building a hard-wired circuit solution, gives way more parallelization of the operations, and allows for refactoring later.  Of course, that also makes it an excellent prototyping platform for optimization prior to developing custom implementations.  On the other hand, the FPGA is simpler than higher-level (software-based) solutions in that signals don't need to be transformed in order to filter them, eliminating quite a few computational steps, and removing the need for more complicated circuitry to run the software.
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