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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-30-2013, 10:10 AM
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Probably is used for parallel operations involving processing images. It's hard to say exactly what it's used for, since FPGAs can be configured to do nearly anything. Could this be reprogrammed to do something else? Sure. Wouldn't try it though.
For historical perspective, consider what Canon was using back in the day -- ASICs. An FPGA coupled with some ARM cores could easily handle all the things that the old ASICs could do, but all on one die, from one company.
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