what is fpga technology??
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FPGA\n(Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. Some are very sophisticated, including not only programmable logic blocks, but programmable interconnects and switches between the blocks. The interconnects take up a lot of FPGA real estate, resulting in a chip with very low gate density compared to other technologies.\n\nThe vast majority of FPGAs are SRAM-based, although there are some flash and antifuse versions. The antifuse variety are of interest to aerospace designers because they are more radiation hardened (rad hard). See PLD and adaptive computing.\n\n\n=)
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All I know is that it's a TI chip based on TMS320 DSP platform. I found a good expression on the following site, but am not sure it's valid still.\n\nBetter to take a look at TI databooks.\nYours\nFredy
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An embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. As opposed to a general-purpose computer, such as a personal computer, an embedded system performs pre-defined tasks, usually with very specific requirements. In an application where the system is dedicated to a specific task, design engineers are able to optimize the system extensively, thus considerably reducing the size and cost of the end product. Due to the low-cost advantage, embedded systems are commonly built into products designed for mass production.\n\nThe core of any embedded system is a microprocessor or a microcontroller, which is programmed to perform a small number of tasks. In contrast to a general purpose computer which at any time can run essentially any software application the user chooses, the software on an embedded system is semi-permanent; so it is often called "firmware".
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I don't think Hardware has a good future in the market\n\nWeb technologies are emerging and the I.T. Industry has once again BOOMED because of Web Technologies so I prefer you must take courses of Microsoft .NET technology, XML and databases
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The biggest one and most interesting is future alternatives to standard CMOS process technology. CMOS is predicted to run out of steam in a few years, i.e. feature size and speed will hit a limit dictated by physics not technology. What are the alternatives ?
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I would suggest, if you can still find some, seven segment hexadecimal driver IC's.  They will convert discrete logic bits into the necessary outputs for a seven segment display.\n\nThe chip has unfortunately been discontinued and are a little fun to find now.  You can build up a substitute using logic gates or a FPGA (if you have access to those and the related equipment).\n\nThis site might be helpful...
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Athlon is faster than pentium.
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See if this helps:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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64-bit memory chip\n\n=D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor\n\nIt's a big subject, at that is just a start.
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A flip flop is a circuit that can "flip" to one state and then later "flop" to another. So when a flip flop is "set" it has an output of 1 and "reset" it has an output of 0. Unlike other kinds of logic gates, the flip flop "remembers" its state (not after the power goes out though).\n\nSo there are lots of ways to make these. Common practice is to use two NOR gates or two NAND gates cross coupled. However, there are other kinds of flip flops that require more kinds of gates. You can also get ICs that have a flip flop function already built in and that's the easy way.\n\nSee the link below for a light-hearted discussion
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Check out nanotechnology, the science and technology of building electronic circuits, devices, etc., from single atoms and molecules. \n\nThe science of construction in which dimensions of the components are less than 100 nanometers (nm; 10−9 of a metre), this is 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.\n\n The term was introduced by Nomo Taniguchi in 1974 to refer to mechanical machining methods. \n\nTop-down nanotechnology concentrates on manufacturing on this very small scale. Techniques such as photo lithography are used to make transistors for integrated circuits; the smaller the transistor, and the closer together they are packed, the higher the processing power of the chip. An Intel Pentium chip has about 1·5 million transistors. A specialized Dynamic Random Access (DRAM) chip carries 64 million transistors. \n\nBottom-up nanotechnology builds with individual atoms. \n\n\nThis area of new technology may hold the most promise on the horizon.
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In the 1940's with ENIAC.  It was one of the first "high-speed" computational devices and is considered the first major milestone in the development of digital computers.  It was used mainly by the U.S. military during WWII for artillery trajectory calculations.\n\nHowever things really took off after the development of the silicon transistor (1954), which are still in use today.
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Power electronics is the technology associated with the efficient conversion, control and conditioning of electric power by static means from its available input form into the desired electrical output form.
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As regards future usefulness it is hard to beat Computing.\n\nBest of luck !
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Here's a great article from wikipedia: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprocessor
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Your question is too vague to properly answer.  However, I can suggest looking at mosix for a distributed system.  Types of sensors and what is the ultimate goal of the project will help me to better answer you.