Introduction to Xilinx FPGA and career planning

Brief introduction:
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is an acronym for a specific type of integrated circuit device. For the recent two decades FPGA have been ubiquitously deployed in the electronic systems. To name a few, they are found as useful and as very cost effective components in miniature handheld devices, toys, industries controlling systems, large-scale electronics and computer systems, etc. The demands in use of FPGA grow very quickly and perpetually. These lead to 1). The FPGA manufactures continue to design their parts to be low cost, more powerful, and highly flexible to promote the FPGA market and revenue. 2). The application development environments evolve and become more affordable and user-friendly to help developers in speed up the time-to-market process of FPGA design, and help developers to explore the maximum and optimum capability of the device.