On: Syzygy: An open standard for low cost, compact and...

[bobmcnamara]

> What's the point of low speed single ended I/O into an FPGA module?

Hardware interfacing with the physical world. Driving small numbers of LEDs, h-bridge drivers, load switches, regulator control signals, reading buttons, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, PWM controllers, GPS, ...

[jpm_sd → bobmcnamara]

That's what microcontrollers are for. FPGAs are harder to program and use a lot more power. So the juice needs to be worth the squeeze!

[bobmcnamara → jpm_sd]

The application is what the chip is for. There are plenty of low power FPGAs and times to use them over a micro.