English Edition: In a follow up about "unusual" computers I want to focus on field programmable gate arrays - FPGAs. With my guest and former colleague at UCL, Michael McLeod, we talk about what they are, where they are used and what's so special about working with them.

Links:

• https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/field-programmable-gate-arrays 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_gate_array 
• https://fpga.epcc.ed.ac.uk 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_description_language 
• https://nandland.com/the-go-board/ the Go Board affordable FPGA for testing and learning
  • https://nandland.com/ Nandland have more resources on FPGA
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xilinx
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20070412183416/http://filebox.vt.edu/users/tmagin/history.htm
• https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga.html 
• https://space.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/FPL_13_B112a.pdf Paper discussing a use case of hardware preservation with FPGAs
• https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RISC.pdf Niklaus Wirth, the creator of the Pascal language, did some work with FPGA as well
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_decision_process Markov decision process
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain 

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