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Slightly off-topic, but does it worth learning FPGA development for existing CS devs when considering future career? I don't mean FPGA is worthless. I mean, as
by kbumsik 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but does it worth learning FPGA development for existing CS devs when considering future career?
I don't mean FPGA is worthless. I mean, as a former EE student, a FPGA career requires pretty high expertise which are quite far from the CS topic, such as HDL, signal processing, and low-level logic design. I hardly ever have seen job openings for FPGA devs that requires lower than a master degree in that specific field.
- extrapickles 8y agoIt’s probably worth dabbling in. I have only used them to understand how to do threaded programming better and how core CS concepts work in practice as it helps to have different perspectives on how to tackle a task. For material career help it depends. Having some experience with it will give you more flexibility, though it might be hard to get resume worthy experience with it.
- eldavido 8y agoNo. I have an undergraduate degree in computer engineering (basically this stuff) but do mostly software these days. You're better off going deep in one or the other, either how to design this stuff or the algorithms/math/CS-heavy parts. I've written a lot about this on my personal blog. http://www.davidralbrecht.com/notes/2018/06/specialization.html http://www.davidralbrecht.com/notes/2018/06/specialization.h... http://www.davidralbrecht.com/notes/2018/10/python:-the-new-c.html http://www.davidralbrecht.com/notes/2018/10/python:-the-new-...