8 year old programs FPGAs

s1axter posted on Tue. August 7th 2007 at 06:56 PM PST

Embedded.com and EETimes have an interesting story on an 8 year old kid who enjoys playing with FPGAs. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are chips who's internal hardware can be re-wired to produce complex logic solutions. Most modern FPGAs can even be programmed' to have one or many CPUs on them.

I think it's cool an 8 year old is playing with VHDL. Just getting a LED blinking on a dev board is a big step for most who are new to VHDL.

Hey Carson, drop us a line and we'll give you a GI blog!

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1 Comments:
Max on Feb 28th, 2008 12:58pm
That's really awesome! The schools should really start a serious science curriculum in about 2nd grade! How cool would that be! This kid is going to make a great EE!