Designing field-programmable gate arrays

Conclusion

I have been saying since 2011 that it's time to bring FPGA design to the masses, and you can find on my blog plenty of posts that make that argument [10], both at the personal and at the educational and political levels. In 2023, borrowing that famous proverb about planting trees, I can only add that the best moment to learn FPGAs was 20 years ago, and the second best moment is now. Study this and the next article, give FPGA design a try, and let me know how it goes!

The Author

Marco Fioretti (http://mfioretti.substack.com) is a freelance author, trainer, and researcher based in Rome, Italy, who has been working with Free/Open Source software since 1995 and on open digital standards since 2005. Marco also is a Board Member of the Free Knowledge Institute (http://freeknowledge.eu).

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