Field Programmable Gate Array

A Field Programmable Gate Array is a programmable hardware device used in signal processing applications. It has the great virtue that it can process a large number of parallel data streams and be re-programmed for different applications.

It is especially good at computing the fast fourier transform very efficiently, and has increasing applications in radio astronomy, especially in correlators and digital filterbanks/spectrometers.


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