1. FPGA technology#
Before you dive into the gritty details of writing a Hardware Description Language (HDL) like VHDL, you should have a basic understanding of the underlaying technology of programmable logic and FPGAs. This chapter provides a brief introduction to both.
![../_images/fpga_fpga_matrix.png](../_images/fpga_fpga_matrix.png)
Fig. 1.1 An FPGA is a matrix of configurable logic blocks.#