Energy-effiecient low-cost FPGAs

现代社会正处于数字电子革命之中，手机、iPod、互联网、平板电视和手持电脑比比皆是。 现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）是可编程半导体芯片，是这场革命的一部分，并准备在10年内出现在每一件电子设备中。 FPGA的快速增长源于技术扩展，今天允许数十亿个晶体管安装在单个芯片上。 技术的每一次进步都与快速升级的复杂性息息相关，因此，现在制造定制芯片需要花费数千万美元，除了少数几家大公司之外，其他公司都无法实现。 FPGA为先进的半导体技术提供了廉价的访问途径，使创新能够在整个范围内发生，从小型初创企业到大型行业再到学术界。

Modern society is in the midst of a digital electronics revolution replete with cell phones, iPods, internet, flat-panel TVs and hand-held computers. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are programmable semiconductor chips that are part of that revolution, and poised to be present in every piece of electronic equipment within 10 years. The rapid growth of FPGAs stems from technology scaling that today allows billions of transistors to fit onto a single chip. Each advance in technology is tied to rapidly escalating complexity, such that building a custom chip now costs tens of millions of dollars, and is out of reach for all but a few large companies. FPGAs provide inexpensive access to advanced semiconductor technology, allowing innovation to happen across the spectrum, from small start-ups, to large industry to academia.