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Three more things you need to know when transitioning from MCUs to FPGAs

Duane Benson — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 16:41:32 +0000

I’ve had microcontrollers (MCU) in my pocket for a few decades now. They have always been much more accessible than field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) but within the last few years, that has started to change. Quite a number of companies have developed sub \$100 FPGA experimenter boards (some quite a bit sub \$100). The major vendors have low or no cost versions of their tool chains and...

Jumping from MCUs to FPGAs - 5 things you need to know

Duane Benson — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:12:38 +0000

Are you a microcontroller expert beckoned by the siren song of the FPGA? Not long ago, that was me. FPGA-expert friends of mine regularly extolled the virtues of these mysterious components and I wanted in. When I made the leap, I found a world seemingly very familiar, but in reality, vastly different. My years of C programming and microcontroller use often gave pre preconceived...