Cadence has introduced what it calls a Rapid Prototyping Platform which includes off-the-shelf FPGA boards with capacities of up to 30 million Asic gates, supports standard Asic flows and provides ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ASIC design flow is very similar to the FPGA flow illustrated in Fig 1 . The ASIC flow will, however, include many verification steps that are not present in the FPGA flow; each of these steps will ...

Moving from FPGA to a production ASIC is a non-trivial journey. But it doesn’t have to be an adventure if you plan ahead.

Deciding between ASICs and FPGAs requires designers to answer tough questions concerning costs, tool availability and effectiveness, as well as how best to present the information to management to ...

Mapping from a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to an application specific IC (ASIC) is subject to some limitations. This white paper identifies some of the most common limitations in this mapping ...

This FPGA-Synthesis Tool Offers The Prototyping Capabilities Required By RF-Intensive Systems And A Migration Path To ASIC Product Design.

With so many ASIC designers moving over to FPGAs for implementation, FPGA tool flows are looking more and more like ASIC flows. Case in point: Actel's Libero IDE 6.2 adds native static timing ...

Simulation acceleration techniques have been around for about two decades, but most products are based on FPGAs from one or two leading FPGA vendors. Usually, it does not matter which FPGA family is ...