Electronic Design

FPGA Prototyping Tool Aligns With ASIC Flow

Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for prototyping 500,000-plus-gate designs. Driving this trend is the fact that a median application-specific integrated-circuit (ASIC) design ...
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 ...
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 ...
EDN

Altera’s Structured ASIC design flow now ITAR-compliant for military apps

Altera Corporation has announced that the U.S. Department of State has certified that the company's HardCopy II structured ASIC design and manufacturing flow is compliant with International Trade in ...
Design-Reuse

Forte Design Systems' SystemC High-Level Synthesis Selected for Fujitsu Semiconductor's ASIC Reference Flow

SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– December 8, 2010 –– Forte Design Systems announced today that Cynthesizer™ high-level synthesis software has been selected for use in Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited’s ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Why Your FPGA Synthesis Flow Requires Verification

When you think about it, logic synthesis is a vital but rather intimidating part of modern chip design. This process takes a high-level description of intended functionality, written in an RTL ...
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, ...
Design-Reuse

Altera's Structured ASIC Design Flow Now ITAR-Compliant for Military Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- March 12 2007--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that the U.S. Department of State has certified that the company's HardCopy(R) II structured ASIC design and ...