Rise Of FPGA

The digital circuit industry received momentum after Moore's prediction with transistor count going from 32 in 1965 to 1 billion in 2007. Bipolar junction transistor technology although provides many advantages but with one major disadvantage that is power consumption. The development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to incorporate computationally intensive operations will also mean more power. This resulted in the introduction of CMOS into the digital circuit industry and also enabled to persist Moore's law with low power consumption.

ASICs provides very high-performance capabilities with low power as it is manufactured for the specific application. But ASICs lacks reconfigurability as it cannot be used for any other application. this resulted in rising of Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as they can be programmed to do multiple operations without remanufacturing.