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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FPGA’s vs. ASIC’s. 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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2005--ProDesign USA, a leading supplier of high-speed FPGA-based ASIC verification platforms, today announced that it has joined the Synopsys in-Sync(R ...

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 ...