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FPGA Engineering

FPGA engineers implement designs on Xilinx/Intel devices for prototyping, acceleration, aerospace and communications products.

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Daily work

  • RTL implementation and constraints
  • Timing closure in Vivado/Quartus
  • Hardware debug with ILA
  • IP integration

Required skills

  • VHDL/Verilog
  • Vivado/Quartus
  • High-speed interfaces
  • Embedded SoC FPGA

Career roadmap

  • HDL basics
  • Board projects
  • Timing constraints
  • SoC FPGA design

Future scope

Strong in defence, aerospace, telecom and AI prototyping.

Learning path for FPGA Engineering

Beginner roadmap

  • HDL
  • Vivado flow
  • Interfaces
  • SoC integration

Recommended books

  • FPGA Prototyping by SystemVerilog Examples — Pong Chu

Practice projects

  • HDMI video pipeline
  • Soft RISC-V SoC on FPGA
  • Ethernet packet processor
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