FPGA design flow to look like Asic flow, says Cadence. Cadence Design Systems is bidding to tackle the issue of closer interaction between hardware and software development. The design tool firm has ...

Figure 1 — A typical ASIC flow. Figure 2 — A typical FPGA flow. As you can see by comparing figure 1 with figure 2, manual work that is often required to insert I/O buffers, boundary scan and ...

Moreover, a common RTL code base must work inboth the eventual ASIC design flow and in the FPGA “IP demonstration”design flow, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3. IP needs to be implemented on multiple ...

Therefore, for high volume designs, it is quite common to develop a design on an FPGA platform and, when functionality has stabilized, map that same design to an ASIC implementation. Since ...

Today's extremely large and complex ASIC and FPGA designs use significant amounts of third-party intellectual property (IP). These IP blocks may represent general-purpose processor cores, digital ...

If you amortize the same design over five years, this could save your company $400,000 even after NRE has been absorbed. Another option is to do a "rapid ASIC" using preformed ASIC blocks, which saves ...

This FPGA-Synthesis Tool Offers The Prototyping Capabilities Required By RF-Intensive Systems And A Migration Path To ASIC Product Design. Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs ...

Barry Lai heads the system development and chip design department at Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC design service and IP provider. During his 20 years of experience in IC design, ...

When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...

Aldec, an expert in mixed-HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, has introduced a HES-DVM simulation acceleration flow for Microchip’s PolarFire, ...