FPGAs and ASICs are two different types of chips used for programming. FPGA chip can provide the necessary flexibility but only ASIC chip can provide higher performance requirements. FPGA SoCs offer a solution which provides some performance and low power benefits of an ASIC and flexibility of a FPGA. FPGA SOC is a hybrid device [...]
Now-a-days, embedded FPGAs started to find market with telecommunications. In the beginning, market kept on changing because users were looking beyond cost to the need to support fast-moving standards. Several attempts were done to kickstart the technology, but it ran to issues of cost and density. Many SoC designers applied many ways to keep flexibility [...]
FPGA is playing an important role in today’s functional safety product development. Because FPGAs are increasingly replacing electronic components typically used for industrial applications, international standards like the IEC 61508 have to support these evolving technology trends if they want to keep their relevance. This article describes how flash-based FPGAs simplify functional safety requirements. Read [...]
Data center managers want their facilities to be more reconfigurable and programmable, as opposed to the old PC era of hardware that must be replaced to keep up with changing standards and protocols. Until now, reconfigurability didn’t exist, and a change in protocol could easily require a data center operator to replace every chip in [...]
Floating-point is the most preferred data type to ensure high-accuracy calculations for algorithm modeling and simulation. This article explores how to implement floating-point algorithms in FPGAs or ASICs. Read More Check out T&VS services that help you know why FPGA technology is making new inroads as demands increase for better integration between hardware and software.
FPGAs are often the best end-game for today's companies and can be your fastest path to initial product proof of concept or even full production when unit volumes are small. This article from SemiWiki outlines when did FPGA design looks more like ASIC design. Read More Check out T&VS services that help you know why [...]
eFPGA is an exciting new tool that allows SoC architects to make their chips more flexible and reconfigurable. This article summarizes the guidelines which help you to more quickly find the optimal eFPGA for the particular needs associated with your unique applications. Read More Check out T&VS services that help you know why FPGA technology [...]
Lines blur as processors are added into traditional FPGAs, and programmability is added into ASICs.FPGAs have moved well beyond into now being architectures for system exploration and vehicles for proving a design architecture for future ASICs. This article describes why FPGAs are becoming more SoC-like. Read More Check out T&VS services that help you know [...]
As verification continues to be a key ingredient in successful design implementation, new approaches have been tried to balance cost, time to results and comprehensive analysis in designs that require large patterns in some application like Image Processing. Simulation environments are well proven, and designers tend to use approaches they are familiar with, but these [...]
Formal equivalence checking tools was key to making logic synthesis mainstream, but it’s more complex when it comes to FPGAs. This article from Semiengineering focuses on why FPGA synthesis flow requires verification. Read More Check out T&VS services that help you know why FPGA technology is making new inroads as demands increase for better integration [...]