EDN

FPGA-based prototyping grows up

ASIC, ASSP and SoC development is, and will always be, a risky and expensive business. Add to this the fact that today functional verification constitutes 50 to 70 percent of the development effort, ...
EDN

Book Excerpt: FPGA-based Prototyping Methodology Manual Part 2

This book collects the best practices FPGA-based Prototyping of SoC and ASIC devices into one place for the first time, drawing upon not only the authors' own knowledge but also from leading ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Prototyping Gains Ground

FPGA technology for design prototypes is making new inroads as demands increase for better integration between hardware and software. FPGA prototyping, also known as physical prototyping, has been ...
Design-Reuse

New FPGA-Based Prototyping Solution Delivers Up To 3x System Performance Improvement

Synopsys' HAPS-70 Series' Scalable Architecture and Integrated Hardware/Software Prototyping Flow Accelerate Throughput While Increasing Prototyping Capacity to 144 Million ASIC Gates MOUNTAIN VIEW, ...
Electronic Design

Point/Counterpoint: Today’s FPGA Prototyping—Breaking the Typecast Mold

Engineers often turn to two tools to verify their complex SoC designs: hardware emulation and FPGA prototyping. Some verification teams will use one over the other, while other teams remain confused ...
Design-Reuse

Synopsys' New HAPS-80 FPGA-Based Prototyping Solution Delivers Up to 100 MHz System Performance

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the new HAPS®-80 FPGA-Based Prototyping Systems, a part of Synopsys' end-to-end Prototyping Solution. The HAPS-80 systems deliver up to 100 MHz multi-FPGA ...
Business Wire

PRO DESIGN Releases FMC Adapter Kit for Its proFPGA Virtex 7 Based FPGA/ASIC Prototyping Solution

MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PRO DESIGN, veteran in the EMS and EDA industry, today announced the release of the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) Adapter Kit for its modular and flexible proFPGA product family ...
Embedded

Pluggable FPGA modules enable scalable prototyping systems

Pro Design expands its proFPGA family of prototyping systems with three different size motherboards and a pluggable FPGA module intended for small and medium-size IP and SoC designs. The uno, duo, and ...
Business Wire

Faraday Unveiled FPGA-Go-ASIC Prototyping Platform to Accelerate FPGA-to-ASIC Conversion

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035), a leading ASIC design service and IP provider, today unveiled its FPGA-Go-ASIC™ prototyping platform solution. This ...
Electronic Design

Q&A: Using FPGA Prototypes for Software Development

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Tom De Schutter, Director of Product Marketing, Physical Prototyping, Synopsys Inc. FPGA-based prototyping allows for ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA Prototyping Complexity Rising

Multi-FPGA prototyping of ASIC and SoC designs allows verification teams to achieve the highest clock rates among emulation techniques, but setting up the design for prototyping is complicated and ...