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by nickpsecurity 478 days ago
One more gift for you, buddy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_analog_ar...

https://www.anadigm.com/fpaa.asp

https://hasler.ece.gatech.edu/FPAA_IEEEXPlore_2020.pdf

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Yeah, there have been a dozen different attempts to make "an FPGA, but analog". This is one of them. They all failed. You'll note the page hasn't been updated since 02006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060715013941/http://www.anadig.... Analog circuits aren't fungible the way digital circuits are.

I'm not saying it's not a worthwhile research direction, just that it hasn't borne commercially viable fruit so far, despite decades of attempts.