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Custom Hardware Enables Tailored Tradeoffs
- Hardware lets you create architectures tailored to a problem, trading off performance, cost, and power at fine granularity.
- That specialization enables solutions impossible or inefficient on general-purpose CPUs.
Hardware Is More Detailed And Costly To Build
- Hardware designs are more detailed and slower to write than software because you must implement every architectural choice yourself.
- The hardware ecosystem is smaller and more expensive than software's rich library ecosystem.
Synthesis Bridges Abstract Design And Gates
- Synthesis tools map higher-level components (adders, registers) down to gates or LUTs, so designers operate above raw transistor wiring.
- Most industry work composes these macro blocks rather than drawing basic gates.