Designing with an FPGA today means you get system gate counts that can exceed 10 million gates. These new FPGAs support internal core performance frequencies greater than or equal to 250 MHz, and I/O frequencies greater than that, depending on the I/O standard used.

An FPGA offers many design possibilities. For example, you can use an FPGA as an embedded microprocessor in your design.

Finally, using an FPGA as a prototype for any ASIC design saves time and money.