EDN

ASIC-Style Design Techniques for Programmable Devices

Advances in process technology are enabling a profound increase in the number of commercial applications for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Technology breakthroughs from 10-million gate ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA And System Designs Get To Market Faster Leveraging ASIC-Proven Analysis Tools

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...
Design-Reuse

Structured ASIC Based SoC Design

Complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs are fast becoming commonplace in today’s applications. Hardware designers must overcome many complex and challenging issues regarding cost, time-to-market (TTM), ...
EDN

Best practices for structured-ASIC design

Given the increasing nonrecurring engineering charges and long design schedules associated with deep-submicron standard-cell ASICs, the use of structured ASICs for custom IC design is an increasingly ...
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

ASIC/IC Trends With A Focus On Factors Of Silicon Success

When Aristotle uttered this humble aphorism, he wasn’t telling us to throw up our hands and not bother with learning. He was encouraging us to continue digging deeper, to get answers and ask questions ...