FPGAs quietly turn 25

This year, 2009, will mark the 25th anniversary of Xilinx. Altera will turn 26, and Actel 24. (Lattice Semiconductor, also an FPGA maker, has a longer industry history than any of these but didn’t have FPGA devices until the early 1990s.)
David Manners of Electronics Weekly asks this week, Does the FPGA need a re-design?
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Finding Nemo at CES 2009

When producing higher-level design tools for FPGAs, it’s important to know the true “pain points” of application developers – what aspects of software-to-hardware are most critical in actual projects, and what barriers there are to success with a given tool flow. There is no better way to learn this than by actually completing a project yourself, with your own tools, on a tight schedule. 
In [...]