The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded features, because they can handle very complicated functions, and be reconfigured an infinite number of times. In addition to introducing the various architectural features available in the latest generation of FPGAs, The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs also covers different design tools and flows.

This book covers information ranging from schematic-driven entry, through traditional HDL/RTL-based simulation and logic synthesis, all the way up to the current state-of-the-art in pure C/C++ design capture and synthesis technology. Also discussed are specialist areas such as mixed hardward/software and DSP-based design flows, along with innovative new devices such as field programmable node arrays (FPNAs).

Clive "Max" Maxfield is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA)and embedded systems industry. In this comprehensive book, he covers all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to, FPGAs in their product designs. While other books cover fragments of FPGA technology or applications this is the first to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use for embedded systems.

• First book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use in embedded designs
• World-renowned best-selling author
• Will help engineers get familiar and succeed with this new technology by providing much-needed advice on choosing the right FPGA for any design project

Electronics design engineers and engineering managers, ASIC Designers moving to FPGAs, electrical and computer engineering students, sales and marketing professionals in the electronic design arena

Preface Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. Fundamental Concepts
3. The Origin of FPGAs
4. Alternative FPGA Architectures
5. Programming (Configuring) an FPGA
6. Who Are All the Players?
7. FPGA Versus ASIC Design Styles
8. Schematic-Based Design Flows
9. HDL-Based Design Flows
10. Silicon Virtual Prototyping for FPGAs
11. C/C++ etc, - Based Design Flows
12. DSP- Based Design Flows
13. Embedded Processor-Based Design Flows
14. Modular and Incremental Design
15. High-Speed Design and Other PCB Considerations
16. Observing Internal Nodes in an FPGA
17. Intellectual Property
18. Migrating ASIC Designs to FPGAs and Vice Versa
19. Simulation, Synthesis, Verification, etc. Design Tools
20. Choosing the Right Device
21. Gigabit Transceivers
22. Reconfigurable Computing
23. Field-Programmable Node Arrays
24. Independent Design Tools
25. Creating an Open-Source Based Design Flow
26. Future FPGA Developments Appendix A: Signal Integrity 101 Appendix B: Deep-Submicron Delay Effects 101 Appendix C: Linear Feedback Shift Registers 101 Glossary About the Author Index