Hi all,
Earlier this month in sci-electronics-design, I announced a Getting Started With Xilinx FPGAs Video Guide. Clive (Max) Maxfield has now done a blog on them at
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Six of the videos are free (no signup required) and video #2 answers the question "What is an FPGA? And how is that different to a microcontroller?"
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Cheers, Anthony