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Do you use FPGA-based controllers?
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| Yes: 8
(25%)
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| No: 24
(75%)
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If yes, because (check as many as apply)
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| It gives me flexibility to custom design to customer apps.: 3
(17%)
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| It gives me flexibility to reprogram quickly, even in the field, to fix bugs.: 5
(28%)
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| It has faster development times.: 4
(22%)
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| I use it for specific logic tasks while I still use my main platform.: 6
(33%)
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If no, because (check as many as apply)
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| They're not supported widely enough by industrial vendors.: 15
(56%)
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| I don't have the interest/time to learn and be able to support a new platform.: 9
(33%)
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| My customers would resist a new platform to learn.: 2
(7%)
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| My current platform performs fine now and for the foreseeable future.: 1
(4%)
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