What is the function of the Cyclone FPGA Chip?
A. FPGA is the abbreviation for a Field Programmable Gate Array. One of the best discussions about FPGA’s is on the Wikipedia. An FPGA is a reconfigurable and programmable set of basic logic elements like gates. All the computers (CPU’s) that we use have similar basic logic elements at their most detailed level. Wikipedia says that applications of FPGA’s include digital signal processing, software defined radio, aerospace, defense systems, medical imaging, computer vision, speech recognition, cryptography, bioinformatics, and computer hardware emulation. Fortunately, the exciting complexity and reconfigurability of these logic elements can be expressed in human readable form by using a Hardware Description (programming) Language from Verilog(R) called VHDL.
