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8 years ago

What do you think most popular usage of FPGA?

My question is simple as title. What do you think most popular usage of FPGA? In my opinion, using FPGA for prototyping ASIC is most popular. Since manufacturing ASIC is quite large scale ...
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8 years ago

Would be interesting to know. I'll bet some folks at Altera know the answer and could describe the market in detail. Like gj_lesson said, there are plenty of audio/video applications (I'd add networking), and I'll bet there are a few small FPGA's in some consumer products too. The real money might be in the expensive FPGA's in RADAR/Satellite or military products.