With the advent of new technologies in IC design and complexity of the business models, chip designers may want to explore different choices available to them for implementation. ASICs have been the ...

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 ...

While is it true that changing an FPGA does not require the long leadtime and high cost to turn an ASIC, the time to find, diagnose, fix and verify FPGA bugs can be prohibitive. As FPGA-based designs ...

FPGA design flow to look like Asic flow, says Cadence. Cadence Design Systems is bidding to tackle the issue of closer interaction between hardware and software development. The design tool firm has ...

Following the road from ASIC to FPGA We are seeing a growing number of engineering teams transitioning from ASIC into FPGA design teams. Many of these teams would like to leverage the tools, flows, ...

This FPGA-Synthesis Tool Offers The Prototyping Capabilities Required By RF-Intensive Systems And A Migration Path To ASIC Product Design. Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs ...

Moreover, a common RTL code base must work inboth the eventual ASIC design flow and in the FPGA “IP demonstration”design flow, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 3. IP needs to be implemented on multiple ...

CAST IP and Aldec Simulators Unite for Smoother FPGA and ASIC Design Flow Woodcliff Lake, NJ, March 7, 2011 — Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. and electronic design ...

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 ...