I'm pretty sure he meant people who design hardware using Hardware Description Languages which aren't only used to configure FPGAs... you can build ASICs using

I'm pretty sure he meant people who design hardware using Hardware Description Languages which aren't only used to configure FPGAs... you can build ASICs using them too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language