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It's weird to see someone refer to a zynq as a FPGA.

Every time I've been involved with one, it's been basically a CPU with various accelerators for specific functions done in the fabric, with the design being CPU-forward. I've never seen anyone approach them from a FPGA-forward angle. Interesting!

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The Zynq is definitely an FPGA. It is an FPGA with a hardened ARM core. 10 years ago, they had FPGAs with hardened PowerPC cores. Now that ARM has taken over, it makes sense.

I've seen a split. Some people are looking for CPU acceleration. Others say Zynq effectively covers the case where FPGA designs include a soft-core anyway for high-level control, so why not make it a hard block.

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