EDN

Clever FPGA partitioning

An increasing amount of system-on-chip design activity today seems to target field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) rather than application-specific ICs. Often this is simply an intermediate target to ...
Design-Reuse

FPGA prototyping of complex SoCs: Partitioning and Timing Closure Challenges with Solutions

In the nanometer era, complex SoCs have higher risk of re-spins. Undoubtedly FPGA prototyping is the right way of pre-silicon SoC validation, accelerate system software development and to meet time-to ...
Design-Reuse

General Partitioning Guidelines for Validation of Large ASIC Designs On FPGA

Rohit Goyal, Neha Singh; Freescale Semiconductor India Pvt. Ltd. Today, a lot of the system-on-chip (SoC) designs depend on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as a way to accelerate verification, ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Prototyping Partitioning Problems

Gaps are widening in the prototyping of large, complex chips because the speed and capacity of the FPGA is not keeping pace with rapid rollout pace of advanced ASICs. This is a new twist for a ...
Nature

A digital SIW-slot antenna array with FPGA implementation of beamforming

The future satellite platform and 5G communication systems place high demands on antennas, in which the antenna should offer low-cost, lightweight, electronically steerable features. In this paper, ...
Nature

High-Level Synthesis Techniques for FPGA Design

High-Level Synthesis (HLS) techniques have transformed the development of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) by raising the abstraction level from hardware description languages to widely used ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Prototyping ARM Cortex-A Processors Using FPGA Platforms

With the increasing cost and complexity involved in new SoC (System-on-Chip) designs, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) prototyping is becoming an increasingly important, or even crucial, part of ...
Geeky Gadgets

TinyBeast Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

If you are searching for a small form factor Field-Programmable Gate Array complete with Mini PCIe you might be interested in the upcoming launch of the TinyBeast FPGA. Offering a PolarFire FPGA in ...
EDN

Design compilation in hardware emulators

In this post, I focus on the compilation process in hardware emulators. Likewise, the design capacity in hardware emulators, also the compilation flow, is heavily dependent on the type of technology ...