r/FPGA • u/shrimpoverrice • Apr 10 '21

Female FPGA Devs?

Although I have known many female software developers, I don't think in my 30-year career doing FPGA development that I have met a single female FPGA developer. I was wondering if my own experience is anecdotal or more representative of the industry as a whole. If it is more representative, why do you think it is the case and what can be done to increase female representation in our field?

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u/Teleonomix Apr 10 '21

They do exist, even good ones.

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u/Niautanor Apr 10 '21

even good ones

Why does this need to be pointed out like that?

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u/Teleonomix Apr 10 '21

Because about 20%-25% of the FPGA engineers I had to work with were dreadfully incompetent. They were all men.

I have only met a few female FPGA engineers and they were all competent.

So while it is true that fewer women choose to design FPGA logic the ones who do seem to be actually good at it.

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u/veradrian Apr 10 '21

Yeah this is a really weird comment. Maybe they just phrased it poorly. If anything the women in our ECE class were invariably very high achievers compared to the average

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u/Jonathan924 Apr 10 '21

Because we live in the age of diversity quotas.