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What is an FPGA and what are its benefits?
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This lecture will briefly answer these questions. 
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FPGA is a technology that brings programmability to hardware. With programming an FPGA, you can almost 
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implement any logical or mathematical function directly on the hardware, which compared to the CPU 
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platforms provides several unique features including Flexibility and Adaptability,  High-speed,
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Low response time,  Low power and energy consumption,
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Cost Efficiency,  Faster Time to Market,
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Real-Time Applications,
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And Reconfigurable System on Chip.
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FPGA has been around for almost four decades and is used mainly by highly-trained hardware engineers. They are 
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mainly used for control logics in industry and prototyping.
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However recently, FPGA has become the key technology in many new products, applications and areas 
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including
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Aerospace & Defence,  Automotive, Medical Equipment, Deep Learning, AI Inference, Neural Networks
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5G Wireless, Wired and Wireless Communications, Database and Data Analytics, Financial Technology
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and High-Performance Computing
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In the next lecture, I’ll point out the different levels of design approach in FPGA. 
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These are the takeaway messages from this lecture, 
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FPGA is a reconfigurable hardware platform that can be configured after manufacturing 
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A wide range of real applications can benefit from FPGA capabilities 
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Now the quiz for this short lecture, 1-Make a list of three features of the FPGA Technology
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2. Make a list of some of the possible applications for FPGAs by connecting to the Xilinx website