I would say that most digital ASICs have the logic proved in FPGAs first. While automated tools exist to go from FPGA to ASIC they are nowhere near as good as h

I would say that most digital ASICs have the logic proved in FPGAs first. While automated tools exist to go from FPGA to ASIC they are nowhere near as good as hand layout. FPGAs are not going away as they fill the nitch where a CPU/GPU is not fast enough, but the quantity of units needed does not justify the cost of making an ASIC. Cheap FPGAs also replace glue logic in smaller run products. Many different FPGAs exist for different tasks. Some include multiple ARM cores so your FPGA design doesn’t have to waste FPGA space on a processor. A few even have programmable analog sections.