Dear all, There is a lot of activity in the electronics community over the so-called FPGAs(Field Programmable Gate Array). It is a custom programmable digital IC with lots of capabilities and pins. FPGAs are very exotic devices, and even microprocessors to the speeds of ghz can be made from them. We do the design of the custom chip in a language called VHDL, which is like Ada, or Verilog HDL, which is like C. Sometimes, some elements are used very commonly, and are called cores. Some FPGA cores are developed by people with free software inclinations and are available under GPL. That is a very nice thing, free software gets into hardware too!!

-George Scaria

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