With Make: FPGAs, you'll learn how to break down problems into something that can be solved on an FPGA, design the logic that will run on your FPGA, and hook up electronic components to create finished projects.
Field programmable gate arrays (FGPAs) allow you to use programming to specify the fundamental hardware functionality of a chip just a if you had designed a chip from scratch. Using software, you define the behaviors you want to see, and the FPGA implements your design in its reconfigurable hardware."--Back cover