Every successful innovation has gone through a difficult journey from its inception to its growth, and FPGA is no exception. As a high-tech innovation, since the first FPGA was born in Japan by Seiko, it has exploded in the 1990s. Not only the FPGA giants in Europe and America like Xilinx, Altera, and Lattice, but also those in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are striving to develop their own FPGAs, and China’s FPGA technology has entered a golden period of comprehensive development.
▪ Domestic FPGA has achieved a leap from board-level to chip-level, with companies like Zhiduojing, Unisoc, and Highcloud Semiconductor initiating the R&D of new high-end 28nm FPGAs;
▪ After 2000, more than ten FPGA integrated circuit design companies emerged in China, sparking a nationwide entrepreneurial trend in FPGA;
▪ There is a significant talent gap in integrated circuits, with the number of FPGA talents in China only being 1/10 of that in the United States;
▪ With AI and 5G technologies gradually being implemented, the FPGA market is expected to reach a scale of $12.5 billion by 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 10.22%;
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Whether it’s chips with millions of gates or aerospace suits with radiation resistance, China has entered the ranks of strong FPGA nations. The core competitiveness among nations is the competition of technology. It is reported that domestic aerospace-grade radiation resistance has reached level 8 or above, only 1-2 levels away from the United States. In the fields of industrial, military, and aerospace-grade FPGA chips, the country has established dedicated FPGA divisions and research institutes for production, indicating that the prospects for domestic FPGA are extraordinary.
Why is FPGA so popular? What unique advantages does it have? Is FPGA really as difficult to learn as everyone says? As FPGA engineers, how should we deeply understand FPGA? In the career growth of FPGA engineers, you may often encounter the following questions:
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What are the advantages of FPGA in industry applications compared to ASIC and GPU?
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What are the key points in FPGA timing analysis, and is it really difficult?
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How to gradually improve when encountering bottlenecks in FPGA development?
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What foundational knowledge is needed to learn FPGA, and what are the common pitfalls in development?
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How should FPGA development proceed in terms of chip selection?
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Are domestic FPGA chips stable, and what are the specific gaps compared to foreign products?
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What can I do after learning FPGA development, can I make money?
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What is the current status of FPGA? With increasing demands for data processing speed in the new 5G environment, will FPGA become mainstream?
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What is a trend in the future development of FPGA? Will languages like C replace HDL, or will they evolve towards System Verilog?
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What do FPGA engineers mainly do in companies, and what are the various directions? Is it mostly pure hardware logic, or a combination of PS and PL? Is proficiency in both required, and is there a requirement for Linux operating systems?
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