FPGA is only part of the game. Very often we use generic DSP's and function specific DSP (video processors, audio processors, graphics accelerators) for industrial products. All these components have extensive control inside the product via i2C or other means to change their configurations and performance in a large way. Again for well design product field upgradability is more powefull then ever before. Mike Tsinberg http://www.keydigital.com -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Benham [mailto:flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 02:17 AM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: Attracting NextGen TV Engineers Richard C. Ramsden wrote: > For consumer gear FPGAs are the way of the near future, maybe. Good > FPGA chips are expensive. The trade off is field upgrade. > > For industrial gear FPGAs are old news. Anyone in the industry who > should know this and doesn't should retire. The WC-01 world video standards converters I use for making NTSC video into CBS Field Sequential Color video are FPGA based. http://tech-retro.com/Aurora_Design/World_Converter.html The gentleman who designed this device has a great collection of working Pre-WW-II television sets, both all-electrnic and mechanical-with Nipkow disks. He designed this unit for himself and other collectors so they could have real 'period' video signals to display on their nicely restored sets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.