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What do you mean by "you". Maybe "you" as in a general consumer don't need an FPGA, but I guess one could argue a general consumer doesn't need a general purpos
by cycomanic 3y ago
What do you mean by "you". Maybe "you" as in a general consumer don't need an FPGA, but I guess one could argue a general consumer doesn't need a general purpose computer either.
There are certainly many use cases where you absolutely do need an FPGA, i.e. anything were you need to process large amount of IO in realtime. For example the guys from simulavr (talk about how they use an FPGA for display correction) here: https://simulavr.com/blog/testing-ar-mode-image-processing/ https://simulavr.com/blog/testing-ar-mode-image-processing/
Many modern devices would not function without FPGAs
- beardyw 3y agoI think we can agree that this discussion does not involve general consumers! "Many cases" is not the opposite of most cases.
- kanetw 3y ago(SimulaVR dev) It's not wrong to say that in most cases, tasks are better solved without an FPGA. But when you need one you need one (or an ASIC if you have the volume and don't need reconfigurability)
- JohnFen 3y ago> anything were you need to process large amount of IO in realtime. I'm working on a FPGA-based system right now. We're using an FPGA precisely because this is what we're doing -- about a hundred I/O ports that have to be processed with as little latency as possible.