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Why or why not and what do you use it for?

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[–] sincle354@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Look, if you search up FPGA issues on the internet, the best you get is forum posts literally 10 years old with one or no replys. However, I went on reddit and posted a hypothetical issue with all of my relevant information, and one day later the guy literally posted the exact chapter in the (hidden) User Guide that was relevant. The other 10 comments had other platform solutions that all had uses.

This is an engineering discipline with less stackoverflow questions than the Discord API (20305 vs 6000+6000). And because HDLs are cool like that, they literally have parts of the programming language that will make it unable to work in real life designs, so half of the answers will screw you. The subreddit understands this and will break down every little gotcha in detail because there is no chance in hell you will find it elsewhere.