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I kind of empathize where they are coming from, my electronics version of "this meeting could have been an email" is "this fpga could have been an arduino". I
by gimmeThaBeet 3y ago
I kind of empathize where they are coming from, my electronics version of "this meeting could have been an email" is "this fpga could have been an arduino".
I feel like we're constantly spoiled by the clock speed of computers, they are good enough for so many things. FPGAs can make simple things a bear to implement, and you will just get there faster.
But there's a bunch of things where FPGAs are like discovering fire, all the discrete digital logic you ever wanted in the palm of your hand (until you have to meet timing).
- dfox 3y agoApart from my overengineered audio stuff (which is intentionally overengineered, as it is mostly an hobby project/research vehicle) I'm guilty of designing what was essentially an simple scintillation detector around fast ADC, somewhat beefy FPGA and bunch of synchronous SRAM, the final shipped hardware had MSP430, bunch of discrete 74ACT logic and bunch of discrete analog comparators instead of the ~100MSps ADC… You should always do the simplest thing that could possibly work…
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- gorkish 3y ago> "this fpga could have been an arduino" That's giving a lot of credit! I see way more of "this FPGA could have been two logic chips and an EEPROM"