Systematic considerations for the application of FPGAs in industrial applications

From the functionality point of view, FPGAs became very interesting for industrial applications. Reasons are the constantly decreasing costs of microelectronics and improvements in the corresponding design tools as well as the increasing need of complex real-time functionalities in these applications. However, other non-functional requirements have to be considered. Therefore, the potentials of FPGAs for industrial applications are considered in this paper on basis of hardware attributes representing the contribution of these systems to system qualities as for example performance, reliability and marketability.