EDN

Demonstrating ASIC IP performance and quality demands an FPGA-neutral design flow

Companies designing new system-on-chip (SoC) products are subject to ongoing market pressure to do more with less and achieve higher returns. The result is shrinking engineering teams, reduced design ...
Design-Reuse

An FPGA primer for ASIC designers

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

SpyGlass Application In An FPGA To ASIC Conversion Flow

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Simplifying DSP Hardware Development within a MATLAB-based Design Flow

Historically, exploiting FPGA or ASIC implementation of DSP algorithms has been the domain of companies with highly-skilled designers and large budgets. Now, a new generation of tools is bringing ...
Embedded

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Synopsys FPGA Platform: Enabling Faster Design, Verification and Debug of FPGAs

FPGA development teams are adopting ASIC-style design, verification and debug methodologies. Here are the necessary elements of such a flow. September 11th, 2019 - By: Synopsys Field programmable gate ...
Design News

Is Platypus from Zero ASIC the FPGA equivalent to RISC-V?

Before I tell you what I’m about to tell you, let’s first refresh our minds as to RISC-V processors. Why? Well, because even though what I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with RISC-V per se, in ...
Electronic Design

7-nm ASIC Technology Sets Sights on Future Data Centers

7-nm ASIC technology benefits in the semiconductor industry. Role of the 7-nm ASIC advanced node in data centers. Cost trends of advanced nodes in the semiconductor industry. As more consumers embrace ...
Embedded

Basics of core-based FPGA design: Part 2 – System design considerations

There are a number of system design factors requiring consideration when implementing an FPGA processor. Some of those factors include the use of co-design, processor architectural implementation, ...
EDN

An FPGA primer for ASIC designers

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 ...