• NotAnonymousAtAal@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    Very useful for hobbyists and prototyping.

    True, but that is not the only thing they are useful for; e.g. many high end measurement instruments ship with FPGAs so they can get improvements after release for functionality where implementing it in software would be too slow.

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      2 hours ago

      Very true. I believe FPGAs are also popular for aerospace applications, since it’s cheaper to design and patch programmable hardware than to design and physically install ASICs.