Challenges and Opportunities for FPGA Platforms

Today, FPGA devices contain up to 10 million system gates [1] and within three to four years processing technology will allow us to build 50 million gate devices, i.e. enough logic to build very complex, high performance systems. In addition, these devices operate at internal clock speeds, the equal of most ASIC's. Although the opportunities for building complex systems with these FPGA platforms are unprecedented, new breakthroughs will be required to solve