Recent FPGA achievements have leveled the playing field, but is it enough? In the 1980s both Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Digital Signal Processor technologies evolved to provide more value to digital electronics designers over conventional ASIC approaches available at that time. These technologies were developed with different focuses: FPGAs to collect discrete logic into a single re-programmable product, and DSPs to provide more efficient signal processing solutions. Today, FPGAs have matured to the point where they can be effectively applied to signal processing tasks, a domain that has recently belonged only to DSPs. What are today's designers of portable electronics to make of the convergence of these technologies in the signal processing space? What is the better solution.
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