But FPGA designers don't need to reinvent the wheel when developing a process. By borrowing proven practices from the ASIC design playbook they can achieve their project objectives without incurring ...

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 ...

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 test-related multiplexing at the top level of an ASIC's RTL code is not ...

Incremental design flow FPGA design software has borrowed from asic design methodology and introduced an incremental design flow (fig 2). In this flow, users can partition their designs based on ...

Many designers from the ASIC world are turning to FPGAs for new designs. According to research firm Gartner Dataquest in its Market Trends report “ASIC and FPGA Suppliers Answer the Call,” more than ...

DESIGN ANALYSIS An ASIC-like flow for FPGA design demands ASIC-like design analysis, and both FPGA vendors and EDA vendors have stepped up to the plate in this respect.

The proposed Synopsys-Xilinx design flow would start with a C/C++ s ystem-level description that would eventually be translated into an FPGA place and route tool. One goal is to allow designers ...

At a Glance Obsolescence is a critical issue for FPGA-based systems within multiple industries and applications. To address these issues, Zero ASIC has launched the Platypus embedded FPGA (eFPGA) ...

Case in point: Actel's Libero IDE 6.2 adds native static timing analysis (STA), among other improvements, to an already ASIC-like FPGA design flow.