High-End Drone Computing Architecture Selection Guide: The Technical Logic and Product Options of Pure FPGA vs. MPSoC
In the design of onboard computing architectures for high-end drones, "pure FPGA or MPSoC" is an unavoidable core question. Pure FPGA excels at hardware parallelism and deterministic latency; MPSoC integrates CPU, real-time cores and programmable logic into a single chip, balancing software flexibility and hardware acceleration. The two are not simple substitutes — they correspond to fundamentally different task-load characteristics. As a technical team deeply engaged in the FPGA field, Duyuan Electronics, based on the engineering practice of the ZU19EG and VU13P product lines, sorts out the technical logic of this selection problem from the nature of drone task loads, and provides reference solutions covering different scenarios.