The company I had transferred to in the Midwest backin the 1980s made locomotives and was plagued by along-term field problem. An overcurrent-protectioncircuit would sometimes trip when the locomotive ...
One day [Andy] was cruising around eBay and spotted something interesting. Forty Virtex-E FPGAs for two quid each. These are the big boys of the FPGA world, with 512 user IO pins, almost 200,000 logic ...