One thing that's nice is that if you have this, you can use an FPGA as a devkit, figure out all the bits and pieces that you need, then use the RP2040 in a "final" product.
FPGAs are obviously cool and powerful, but there's a pretty big cost differential.
On top of that, an FPGA is not a replacement for a CPU in itself. Soft cores are costly in gates. Of course "FPGA + CPU" is a thing, but in that case... if you can get away with a CPU by itself your tooling gets a lot simpler.
FPGAs are obviously cool and powerful, but there's a pretty big cost differential.
On top of that, an FPGA is not a replacement for a CPU in itself. Soft cores are costly in gates. Of course "FPGA + CPU" is a thing, but in that case... if you can get away with a CPU by itself your tooling gets a lot simpler.