1. Embedded FPGAs must be expensive.
An embedded FPGA is similar to an FPGA chip, but simpler and cheaper. An FPGA chip has 30% or more of its area consumed by the SerDes, PHYs, PLLs, etc., which aren’t needed when integrated into an SoC. FPGA packages, which tend to be large and expensive, disappear when the FPGA is embedded...
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