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 ...

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 ...

Pulled three ways If you choose—as most teams will—to do a proof-of-concept or a verification platform in FPGAs, you will, from the very start, be pulled in three directions at once, as shown in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Synopsys dominated the ASIC synthesis tools market last year with a 90 percent share despite stepped-up competition from Cadence, Magma and Synplicity, according to Gartner Dataquest. But it takes a ...

According to Aldec, Active-HDL version 9.1 is a high performance, mixed language solution that interfaces with nearly 100 third party vendor tools, providing fpga designers with a single platform that ...