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by AWildC182 2454 days ago
Most of the development is for the military. It gets farmed to contractors who use all the same stuff you have access to, just typically several years out of date.

The ability to fully enumerate and simulate every part of the design gives them a huge hardon even though stuff frequently passes simulation and fails on the silicon. It's very common to see FPGAs in nuclear, military RF, and aerospace applications.