FPGA design starts are on the rise due to the lower startup costs and re-programmability that FPGA devices can provide. However, large, complex FPGA devices pose significant challenges to an FPGA ...

And if they are a senior ASIC design engineer, they may even become tear eyed and misty with nostalgia as the FPGA flow is reminiscent of the days of the ASIC-handoff, in which designers spent the ...

However, in high volumes, the unit cost associated with an ASIC can be significantly more attractive. Therefore, for high volume designs, it is quite common to develop a design on an FPGA platform and ...

While the FPGA design flow has many similarities to a typical ASIC design flow, it requires a different mindset from ASIC design. ASIC designers are used to defining their chip size in terms of number ...

The FPGA is a type of semiconductor that can be reconfigured by a customer or designer after manufacturing – something ...

A co-design flow of packaging and ASIC design allows customers to evaluate and balance the many factors at play. A co-design ...

It's not easy to switch from an ASIC to an FPGA design flow, however. True, complex FPGA design shares some features with ASIC design, but under the hood, many of the steps are fundamentally different ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Making its fourth run at FPGA synthesis, Synopsys Inc. has tweaked its Design Compiler ASIC synthesis tool to enable designers to use the same tools and potentially the same design ...

As a result, they need an FPGA flow that complements their existing ASIC design environment (see figure). DC FPGA claims to meet this need through its tight integration with the company's ASIC ...

Using a traditional Register Transfer Level (RTL) design flow that relies on RTL simulation for verification ... reduce development costs for complex chips- whether they be SoC, ASIC or FPGA based ...

As FPGA-based designs have become more complex, many development teams have adopted ASIC-like design and verification flows ... to tune EC settings for each specific FPGA device and flow, thus ...