Am 11.06.2010 13:11, schrieb Invisible:

>> but if you want to do digital circuit design for a job there are
>> plenty of opportunities in a vast range of industries.
>
> Seriously... Doing what? Everything seems to be made of off-the-shelf
> parts (which, by definition, already exist). What's to design?

You may be underestimating how many of those off-the-shelf products are 
designed to implement ASICs (application-specific ICs) at low costs. 
Just like PROMS (and later EPROMS and EEPROMS) were 
off-the-shelf-products designed to be customized (by programming them 
with the desired content) where true ROMs (i.e. ICs "hard-wired" to hold 
some particular content) would have been too costly, FPGAs are designed 
to be "programmed" with custom logic rather than creating a dedicated 
ASIC for the job. And just like the software to be programmed into an 
EEPROM needs to be designed by someone, the same goes for the logic 
circuitry to be written into an FPGA.

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