Workshop on: Designing techniques of electronic circuits using field programmable gate arrays
2013
FPGAs are pre-fabricated silicon devices that can be electrically programmed to become almost any kind of digital circuit or system. They provide a number of compelling advantages over ASIC technologies. ASICs typically take months to fabricate and cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to obtain the first device; FPGAs are configured in less than a second (and can often be reconfigured if a mistake is made) and cost anywhere from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars. These high costs, and the need for a proportionally higher return on investment, drive most digital design starts toward FPGA implementation.