FPGAs: World Class Designs

Preface

I know that I'm enamored with just about everything to do with electronics and computing, but whichever way you look at them, today's Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) “stand proud in the crowd” as amazingly cool devices.

I remember being a young lad at middle school in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. At that time, I was an avid subscriber to the electronics hobbyist magazine Practical Electronics. At the beginning of each month I would make a detour to the newspaper shop on the way to (and from) school every day to pester the old man behind the counter: “Has it arrived yet?” The day the latest issue was firmly clutched in my hot and sticky hands was a happy day indeed.

Of particular interest to ...