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They are used in production all over the place, along with their smaller cousin, the CPLD. If you see a part on a PCB by Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, or some MicroS
by planteen 8y ago
They are used in production all over the place, along with their smaller cousin, the CPLD. If you see a part on a PCB by Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, or some MicroSemi parts, odds are that it's an FPGA. Many FPGAs lose their configuration on power-off, so you configure the bitstream using a CPU for example. As others have said, there are also flash-based ones.
I personally know of many embedded systems using FPGAs (spacecraft and medical applications), signal processing such as radar, many PCIe cards, etc.