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If you only need 10 chips, you may just be able to use 50 or even 500 FPGAs.

500 VU19P will cost less than 5 million.

[rwmj → 15155]

There's a large number of applications which cannot be done in an FPGA, for instance any complex GHz-clocked digital circuit, or many analog circuits.

[vasco → 15155]

Not if you want to put it somewhere small like a satellite or bunch of other things.

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https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/06/09/xilinx-laun...

Xilinx launches ‘industry’s first’ 20 nanometer space-grade FPGA chip