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Loosely inspired by how much people seemed to enjoy a similar question I asked on Games about unappreciated titles. But answers don't have to be media related (they still can be though).

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

FPGAs, love the damn things. They're circuits that you can re-program at will after they've been manufactured! If you build, like, a 2-input AND gate, that's all it will ever be. It can only take in 2 inputs and AND them together. But with an FPGA, they're manufactured to be versatile; you "program" the circuit you want to achieve onto the chip, and it will achieve that functionality! You can make a 2-input AND gate, slap it onto a bread board, and have yourself that nifty little AND gate, but if you later decide you wanted it to be a NAND gate, just reprogram the chip and like magic, what was once an AND gate is now a NAND gate. They're great!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s why I love my Analog pocket

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad Analog Pocket is popularizing FPGAs, a lot of people are discovering them because of it.

CYCLE ACCURATE HARDWARE RECREATION. IT'S INCREDIBLE.

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