Intel Announces FPGA on package + Xeon Product

[crashtech]

Sorry, needed sarcasm tags. I though my hyperbolic language would be enough to provide an indicator...

 

[Snowman_]

Awesome, like Shintai said, hopefully this gets FPGAs into more people's hands. I'm guessing taking some extra courses in FPGA design/theory wouldn't be a bad idea...

Wake me up when machines start re-programming FPGAs without human intervention.

Not sure if this is the same idea that you were referring to, but there is a very interesting topic about self-programming hardware.
Mind you I literally just started research in this field (still reading through recent publications on the underlying principles of evolvable hardware, so my knowledge is INCREDIBLY basic on it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware

Our circuit will have analog hardware in addition to the digital hardware.

 

[BrightCandle]

My experience of these things is mighty expense, tricky programmability and most of the performance coming from fixed functions that can be called from the custom bits. I did an image compression algorithm on an FPGA a decade qo now and it worked well enough with a lot of source code tweaking but I have only ever considered it useful in very specialist cases.