This course will introduce students to practical design methodologies for developing applications for FPGAs and ASICs ... Intel FPGA development software and Intel FPGA development boards. Topics ...

In nanometer era; factors such as time-to-market, NRE costs, risk of re-spins and volatility of emerging standards are favoring FPGA based system designs instead of ASIC design starts ... cycle ...

For example FPGA technology has a limited frequency, about 20 MHz, and extended gate delay has strict constraints compared to the ASIC one. Three hardware ... Figure 8: Functional Block Diagram ...