[Swansea Hackspace] Next Technical Events?

[Justin Mitchell]

On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 13:46 +0000, Richard Morgan wrote:


> P.S. What's an FPGA in the FPGAs for Beginners offering?
Field Programmable Gate Array

Large arrays of logic gates that can be rewired in what is basically
software, they can be used to implement custom chip designs and other
hardware at relatively low cost (compared to making a custom chip)

This is how people make really fast bitcoin mining kit for example.

A low end one to start with would be something like a Xilinx Spartan
series device.

 http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/spartan-6.html