FPGA Technology Honored with IEEE Milestone Designation at AMD Campus

On 12 March, an IEEE Milestone plaque recognizing the first FPGA was dedicated at the Advanced Micro Devices campus in San Jose, Calif., the former Xilinx headquarters and the birthplace of the technology.

The FPGA earned the Milestone designation because it introduced iteration to semiconductor

Many of the world's most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers, wireless base stations, medical imaging scanners, and some artificial intelligence tools—depend on field-programmable gate arrays.