Survey on FPGA Architecture and Recent Applications

Field Programmable Gate Array or FPGA is introduced in the year 1985 and it is getting popular day by day due to its properties like design to reuse and flexibility. As compared to microprocessor, FPGA have high performance and configurability. When compared with application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), FPGA reduces development time, non-recurrent engineering (NRE) costs. The unique property which differ it from ASIC is its reconfiguration. The recent trends in FPGA architecture are in the direction which reduces the gap between the ASIC and FPGA. This paper will discuss on the classification of FPGA based on their routing architecture and the recent trends in the field of Physics, computation, defense, space research, etc., which are focusing on betterment of the existing technology.