From Mars To Retro Gaming: 40 Years In And FPGAs Continue To Blaze A Trail

AMD FPGAs and adaptive SoCs (a modern evolution of the tech), are used in everything from the NASA’s Mars rovers, to bleeding edge networking and communications systems, and autonomous vehicles.

Let’s start with a bit of background on what an FPGA actually does. Some might consider the FPGA somewhat of an unsung hero in the semiconductor market and it’s important to understand what they’ve enabled in their 40-year history. An FPGA is a type of integrated circuit that can be continually reprogrammed in the field to perform different types of computing tasks.