With the availability of many accurate and high-speed sensors (high-speed cameras, video processing) and high-speed connectivity (IoT, security, cloud applications) applied in the medical industry, there is a huge need for Field Application Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Microcontrollers may not be a good fit for every application mentioned above. Here are a few reasons to use FPGA design firm: Flexibility. Having configurable logic blocks means you're never stuck with your hardware. Users can never run out of timers or UARTs as long as they have logic elements available to create another one. Being able to reconfigure down the road can also extend the life cycle of a product as technology and requirements change. Speed. A microcontroller executes instructions one at a time, sequentially. An FPGA structure is inherently parallel because of its hardware nature. This allows things to occur simultaneously which is useful for operations like the FFT or graphics processing which can be expensive on a sequential processor. FPGAs also have more high-speed I/O options than a typical microcontroller like LVDS and transceivers capable of 10+ Gbps for protocols like HDMI.