Alternatives would be to create an FPGAvariant of the design to reduce functionality and achieve fit, but thiswould be a far from ideal situation as there would be a divergencebetween the RTL design ...

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 ...

Where a typical ASIC flow is 18 months, a typical FPGA flow for the largest FPGA devices is 8 months, often shorter. Where verification in its many forms consume upwards of 60 to even 75 percent of ...

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 ...

However, in high volumes, the unit cost associated with an ASIC can be significantly more attractive. Therefore, for high volume designs, it is quite common to develop a design on an FPGA platform and ...

FPGA design starts are on the rise due to the lower startup costs and re-programmability that FPGA devices can provide. However, large, complex FPGA devices pose significant challenges to an FPGA ...

According to research firm Gartner Dataquest in its Market Trends report “ASIC and FPGA Suppliers Answer the Call,” more than 74,000 “design starts” used FPGAs in 2004, but only around 4,000 used ...

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 ...

Designers have a choice of a limited number of tools when they choose this methodology. One choice is the CebaTech's C2R Compiler that provides the technology to enables a C-based design methodology ...

Fig. 1: Equivalence checking proved that the golden design and the revised design after synthesis matched. The availability of EC tools was a key factor in driving logic synthesis into the mainstream ...

Structured ASICs are gaining market traction. Designers find that a migration path from FPGA to structured ASIC and, potentially, to standard-cell or custom ASIC is a good way to manage costs. Yet ...