This paper examines market trends and offers design examples that address today's challenges including protecting products from piracy, developing product and design variations, extending product life span, lowering cost, improving reliability, performance and power consumption. Designers use FPGAs, gate array ASICs, or an innovative combination approach to solve these requirements across a range of applications from test and measurement, instrumentation, building automation and HVAC to security and medical electronics.

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