If you look at the way people have used FPGAs, they are a miracle product in many ways. -Mark Oliver
Our guest Mark Oliver, VP of marketing at Efinix talks about the evolving role of FPGAs in the industry beyond prototyping. Mark will give us a very insightful use of FPGA as an efficient custom silicon solution and will go deep on the importance of RISC-V for processor designs.
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Show Highlights:
Introduction to Efinix, an FPGA company
Mark starts off by addressing the inefficient ways designers use FPGAs and how this has helped them develop a product that can be utilized from prototyping and straight to high-volume manufacturing
Efinix FPGAs are cost-effective, low-power, and small-form efficient for custom silicon solution


The common FPGAs integration including the SIP (Session Initial Protocol) implementation
FPGA market is set to explode because it is going in the same direction as the current industry growth
they  are designed as mid-volume production solutions with the potential for scalability


Given that the industry is dominated by software engineers Efinix moves its course to RISC-V processor integration
What is RISC-V and why it is so important for processor design, specifically for FPGAs?


FPGAs already offer great benefits and there will be more to come

Links and Resources:
Connect with Mark Oliver on LinkedIn
Visit Efinix website
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