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We've come a long way in our love affair with FPGAs. What do you think?

rscasny

i love my fpgasI've been working in the element14 community since 2016. I can remember back then, the Raspberry Pi seemed to be the element14 community's first love. Of course, Arduino tried breaking us in two, to quote an old Joe Jackson song. But it didn't work. Then a few years later we got serious about our relationship with FPGAs. And the community hasn't stopped loving it.

But our love affair with FPGAs has changed, as all relationships are bound to do. Years ago, we were just trying to get to know each other. But our relationship began warming up with a few webinars, which led us to our Path to Programmable 1 and 2.

We then sweetened our love affair with FPGAs with AI and machine learning from Project14. And after all these years we are finding new ways to get to know one another.

Perhaps you can tell me how well our love affair with FPGAs is going by voting in the polls below. Thanks!

Randall

-element14 Team

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  • Fun survey.  Number 5 dealt with the qualities you consider when choosing an FPGA.  I like number of LEs optimized for price.  I didn't see this option reflected so I had to choose other.  I am always on the look out for an FPGA where you pay $1 to $2 per 1000 logic elements.

    For number 10 I think I was the only one who loved the 0 to 50MHz frequency range.  I guess the rest of you like the challenge of overcoming timing violations.  Wink 

  • in reply to dang74

    I went for 50-100MHz. Back in the days of Spartan 3, I did a lot of stuff in the area of 50-80 MHz that needed very little attention to the timing (does depend to a certain extent on how you do your logic design and the style of your HDL writing, though).

    In case you haven't looked at them, the small iCE40UP5K parts are 5K LEs and sell for $10.

    iCE40UP5K

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  • in reply to dang74

    I went for 50-100MHz. Back in the days of Spartan 3, I did a lot of stuff in the area of 50-80 MHz that needed very little attention to the timing (does depend to a certain extent on how you do your logic design and the style of your HDL writing, though).

    In case you haven't looked at them, the small iCE40UP5K parts are 5K LEs and sell for $10.

    iCE40UP5K

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