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INSIDE those OLD pinball machines (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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First, wear your dust mask. Who knows where these machines have been?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. Modern FPGAs do not use any UV light or have any windows. For storage they use flash memory (same as what's used in MicroSD cards, USB sticks and SSDs). Some (most?) require you to provide this yourself externally.

Old EPROM (not EEPROM) storage had windows and needed UV to erase, but that's decades old. I'm not sure if FPGA was common nomenclature back then (PAL/GAL/CPLD were probably the market).