Introduction of FPGA

This is a really nice introduction video about FPGA, explaining basically what is a FPGA, the advantage and disadvantage of it. But in large electronic system design, FPGA is almost a must thing to be included, don’t miss it.

Advantage:

• Do anything!
• Super Fast
• Field Programmable
• Massively parallel
• High I/O Count

Disadvantage:

• expensive
• high power
• volatile/Boot time
• high pin count BGA
• complicated
• many traps (traditional electronic language design)
• complex tools
• hard to chose/compare
• HDL(Hardware Description language) not easy/intuisive