These chips are reconfigurable either at develop time or run-time via compiled logic injection which takes from 10 nanoseconds to 100 milliseconds... Typically the chip can be configured with a number of controllers as well as a core... You can find the tech called Xilinx [Goog's]
I find it cool because effectively, if the main board design permitted, you could design software which might self optimize and re-inject itself into the chip to improve efficiency or operations or shift functional focus as needed...
FPGA's are becoming popular and moving beyond the development only environment and into mainstream into things like tablets, hardware controllers and sophisticated relays which can be optimized or refocused as needed...Statistics: Posted by Thex1138 — Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:32 am
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