6. Conclusion

In the 1980s, the first FPGA circuits were limited to interfacing tasks between different integrated circuits on the same printed circuit board. Significant technological developments in the 1990s brought FPGAs with many configurable resources to market. From this point onwards, FPGAs became alternatives to ASICs in many small-batch and prototyping applications. The massive integration of many configurable resources, memory blocks, optimized computation operators and embedded processors in the 2000s led to an explosion in the use of FPGAs in the world of electronics. Today's FPGAs can implement the functions of several million logic gates. It is now possible to use FPGAs to build complete systems-on-a-chip, or SoCs, for highly complex applications, which would be much more costly or risky to build using ASICs, and without the guarantee of being able to design a fully functional circuit...