[JoachimS]

And to be nitpicking - when you worked with FPGAs, you probably didn't do assymbly code either. Unless what was implemented in the FPGA was a cpu core.

FPGA design is not writing a program with instructions that are executed by a processor. It is describing real hardware with registers, wires, memories, pins and logic gates. This description is mapped onto the actual resources in the FPGA. The result might be a CPU that can execute instructions available as bit values in a memory, but quite often it isn't.

I know this is nitpicking - but as a HW designer I really have a problem when people use the term "FPGA programming". ;-)

[gambogi]

...but they're Field-Programmable Gate Arrays