Wearable FPGA : The iCE40 Ultra FPGA uses a package that is 60% smaller than alternative microcontrollers and Android on Xilinx Zynq FPGA SoC

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Lattice Semiconductor's iCE40 Ultra is a low-power platform in compact wrist watch form factor that supports multiple wearable applications, and a range of hardware features make the platform a fit for almost any consumer wearable device.

The platform comes with a user guide and demos to help expedite device design: based on the iCE40 Ultra FPGA, it features a large number of sensors and peripherals, making it a compelling platform for the design of a wide array of wearable devices FPGA Uses : Bioinformatics Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines computer science, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to analyze and interpret biological data. Bioinformatics has been used for in silico analyses of biological queries using mathematical and statistical techniques. Algorithms done in C and then converted to RTL or HDL