What is an FPGA? Intro for Beginners

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Learn the basics of what is an FPGA. This video discusses the history of FPGAs and how they have advanced over time. It discusses some applications that are possible. Finally I introduce the two languages used to program FPGAs: VHDL and Verilog.
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this might be the clearest video about FPGA introduction I've ever found, thank you

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I stumbled upon this video because I was interested in a company called Analogue. What they do is make high end retro clone consoles. Like the NES snes Sega Genesis, ect. They use fpgas to make consoles that are the closest 1 to 1 experience with modern tv outputs available, but the cost are high as well. Being a total noob, I was curious as to why, and you do a good job in explaining what fpgas do, so thank you

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Excellent Introduction of FPGA. Thanks

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Much appreciated!

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Still a helpful video. When introducing EE topics to people who will never use them clear, simple but accurate history is critical. Thank you.

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A good introduction... Thanks.

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very informative, didn't knwo what an FPGA was before this. Or Verilog and VDHL.

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very interesting, now there are a lot of attention towards this technology because of videogames, FPGA emulates games much better than a software emulation...your explanation was very clear, thank you!

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Thank you, for someone who knows nothing about programming that helped a lot. Now my question is how does someone become an FPGA programmer ?!

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I bet those jobs are well paid.

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So how does ones simulate Turing Completeness with one of these beasts?

[@BillAnt]

You've mentioned that a CPU can only process one command at a time, while that's true, modern multi-core CPU's can do many in parallel, sort of like an FPGA. But of course FPGA's are still very good at huge amounts of parallel data processing. ;)

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