fpga
Engineering acronym, technical reference for electronics work
The abbreviation for 'Field Programmable Gate Arrays', a kind of Digital IC that has a large number of transisters which can be programmed and re-programmed to make a variety of circuits to do a variety of functions. This is in contrast to simple ICs which once manufactured can't be altered in any way.
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Also in the dictionary
- FPGA in electrical engineering