About the Course

FPGA-based design refers to Field Programmable Gate Arrays, or FPGAs, that are used in the place of microcontrollers to execute sets of functions instead of having a lot of sequential steps and controllers that don’t create a unified process. This design process is common in medical device development and can help create more effective designs than other methods of prototyping. In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at what FPGAs are and what their design entails.

A Field Programmable Gate Array is a semiconductor device that is comprised of logic blocks. These logic blocks are specifically programmed to execute certain functions. They can be interconnected using a matrix, and their structure is a two-dimensional array that connects input and output signals for easy operation. FPGAs are also entirely reprogrammable, which means that they can be modified to serve a different function if they’ve completed their first task.