{"id":5735,"date":"2022-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freelancermap.com\/blog\/what-does-fpga-engineer-do\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T14:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:26:39","slug":"what-does-fpga-engineer-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freelancermap.com\/blog\/what-does-fpga-engineer-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What does an FPGA Engineer do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FPGA Engineers work to program, design, and develop FPGA logic chips for use in day to day applications such as medical, security, or communications. Let\u2019s take a look at what they do!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Role overview<\/div>
What’s FPGA?<\/a><\/span>Responsibilities<\/a><\/span>
Skills<\/a><\/span>
Background<\/a><\/span>
Salary<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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What is FPGA?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"FPGA<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Field Programmable Gate Arrays<\/strong> (or FPGAs) are semiconductor devices<\/strong> with reprogrammable logic chips.Their prefabricated logic blocks can be reconfigured and this allows FPGAs to be retrofitted with hardware functions or interfaces without the need for additional chips or wires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This makes FPGAs attractive for prototype development<\/strong>, for fast data and signal processing or as a flexible alternative to application-specific ASICs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FPGAs are programmed via Register Transfer Languages (RTL)<\/strong> such as VHDL or Verilog. However, there are also numerous design tools that allow programming with languages such as C++<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FPGA Applications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The programmable nature of FPGAs makes them suitable for use in several different industries<\/strong>. Some of these include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n