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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Designs targeted for FPGA to ASIC translation can help to resolve or minimize the impact of all the design issues noted above, with the exception of TTM. For TTM the FPGA to production methodology ...

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 ...

Anything that works in an FPGA can be moved to an ASIC in this way. But what about the design changes you made to optimize the design for the FPGA? With essentially unlimited logic and routing ...

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 ...

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 ...