Glossary
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FPGA
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence “field-programmable“. The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL), similar to that used for an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). They consist of a collection of logic cells called lookup tables (LUTs) surrounded by an interconnect fabric. The LUTs and fabric are programmable, providing a flexible system that can implement almost any digital algorithm.