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Re:Analog's answer to FPGA opens field to masses (2008) by pjc50 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:04AM (#8590483)
Analog silicon designers? Maybe, although it may be underestimating the number outside the West.

It's much less prevalent than digital logic, much harder, and slower moving industry as it doesn't benefit from Moore's law in the same way.

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Re:Analog's answer to FPGA opens field to masses (2008) by swamp40 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:40AM (#8590713)
I don't think they are talking about silicon designers.

The article quotes the professor as hoping FPAA's will allow "a wide range of less-skilled users to try out sophisticated, low-power (analog) techniques".

In other words, typical device-level design engineers.

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Re:Analog's answer to FPGA opens field to masses (2008) by sliverstorm on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:07PM (#8590873)
Right, that's his target market, not his existing analog engineer population.
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