A recent trend has been to take the coarse-grained architectural approach a step further by combining the logic blocks and interconnects of traditional FPGAs with embedded microprocessors and related peripherals to form a complete "system on a programmable chip".
Nedavni trend je bio da grubi arhitektonski pristup napravi još korak dalje kombinovanjem logičkih blokova i veza tradicionalnih FPGA komponenti sa ugrađenim mikroprocesorima i srodnim periferijama kako bi se formirao potpuni "sistem na programabilnom čipu".