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Hi All , Lets take a deep look on current list of FPGA Product companies available across globe (year 2020).  The list is not compiled on any particular.Its purely based on popularity and available references from my memory. Generely speaking the FPGA industry is in continues growth (rough 5 Billion USD in 2018 and expected to reach 13 Billion USD by 2026). 1. XILINX -   https://www.xilinx.com/     The flagship bearer , industry leader for last 20 years , with widest portfolio of FPGA , SoC devices.     Major Portfolio :  Virtex , Zynq , RFSoC , Versal AI      Tool Name         :  Vivado - Synthesis, PnR , Programming Tool                                   Vitis  - Software Development Tool for Processor/ AI Integration 2. INTEL FPGA (Altera) -   https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/products/programmable.html     Previously known as Altera, currently part of Intel , main competitor for Xilinx.     Major Portfolio  :  Agilex , Arria 10 SoC , Xeon-FPGA hybrid      Tool Name         : Q

Hi All ,  Welcome to another tech byte.... Embedded Linux is a very powerful area in the current age of IoT  and Edge Computing. But as an FPGA RTL person throughout the career , i had  numerous situations where had to work side by side with embedded software engineers who were  linux gurus. I have seen their struggle starting from setting up environment for development, building code , solving hardware dependencies , integrating software pieces for limited resources , cross compiling , optimising for performance so and so... Rather than few sneek peaks into their works, i have never dared myself to do a hands on into these linux stuffs.. I was pretty happy with few diagnositc linux commands which told me , yes data to and from my FPGA side is pretty solid and running.. And we had run into situations where we play "ball in your court" game  when a bug pops up from nowhere.. We blame it on software and they shout it back on RTL  :) But last project at workplace with a