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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 used to work at a company that makes NMR/MRI equipment (super conducting magnets, etc.). I was the Linux kernel guy, and we built this awesome platform based on the Xilinx Virtex II Pro (essentially a custom SoC). I still keep my hand in a little, but I'm mostly working on "Enterprise Linux" for a living these days. Still, I've currently a pipe dream of implementing a fake IDE/PATA controller in a cheapo CPLD or maybe FPGA that will allow me to expose some GPIO lines via a fake "disk" in my old empeg (Linux car mp3 player device - they stopped making them ten years ago) and thereby, with a lot of driver hacking allow me to do USB over "IDE", adding a USB interface to the player.

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    I used to work at a company that makes NMR/MRI equipment (super conducting magnets, etc.). I was the Linux kernel guy, and we built this awesome platform based on the Xilinx Virtex II Pro (essentially a custom SoC). I still keep my hand in a little, but I'm mostly working on "Enterprise Linux" for a living these days. Still, I've currently a pipe dream of implementing a fake IDE/PATA controller in a cheapo CPLD or maybe FPGA that will allow me to expose some GPIO lines via a fake "disk" in my old empeg (Linux car mp3 player device - they stopped making them ten years ago) and thereby, with a lot of driver hacking allow me to do USB over "IDE", adding a USB interface to the player.

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