FPGA

FPGA

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – hence "field-programmable". The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware description language (HDL), similar to that used for an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). (Circuit diagrams were previously used to specify the configuration, as they were for ASICs, but this is increasingly rare.) Wikipedia

• LUT - Combinational Logic

• Flip Flops - Sequential Logic

• Multiplexers

• I/O cells

• Dedicated Resources

  • DSP Blocks

  • BRAMs

  • Multipliers

  • Ethernet/PCI Controllers

  • Clock Resources (PLL/MMCM)

Avdantages

• Parallelism

• Flexibility

• Low-Cost

• High Performance

Generic FPGA Flow

• Entre Design HDL - Behavioral Simulation

• Synthesis - Functional Simulation

• Implementation (P&R) - Timing Simulation

• Download - In-Circuit Verification

Why FPGA

Platforms

Software Tools

FPGA Flow

ASIC

An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) /ˈeɪsɪk/, is an integrated circuit (IC) customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use. For example, a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficiency Bitcoin miner is an ASIC. Application-specific standard products (ASSPs) are intermediate between ASICs and industry standard integrated circuits like the 7400 or the 4000 series Wikipedia