An FPGA or field programmable gate array is a special type of integrated circuit that can be programmed after it has been manufactured. This means that you can essentially design and build your own custom hardware using an FPGA without having to go through the expensive and time consuming process of traditional ASIC or application specific integrated circuit.
FPGA are made up of configurable logic blocks can be programmed to perform wide variety of function including simple logic gates, complex mathematical operations or even entire processing system.
VERILOG and VHDL are widely used hardware description languages to program FPGA to design and build custom hardware and in order to test your design you have to write a program to test your design called testbench for it SystemVERILOG is widely used language in the industry.
FPGA provides flexibility, performance and cost effectiveness.
Applications in the industry including but not limited to telecommunication, networking, automotive, Aerospace, medical imaging, military.
For instance a quantitative trading firm known for its innovative technology and high performance computing heavily utilizes FPGA in their trading infrastructure.
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