<span>In August of 2006, an engineering VP from one of Alteraβs customers approached Misha Burich, VP of Engineering at Altera, asking for help in reliably being able to predict the cost, schedule and quality of system designs reliant on FPGA designs. At this time, I was responsible for defining the
FPGA Design: Best Practices for Team-based Design
β Scribed by Philip Simpson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 163
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
FPGA Design: Best Practices for Team-based Design Philip Simpson Many Companies struggle with establishing a working FPGA design methodology across design teams in their Company. As design teams become more dispersed globally, the need increases for a standard design methodology. This book describes best practices for successful FPGA design. It is the result of the authorβs meetings with hundreds of customers on the challenges facing each of their FPGA design teams. By gaining an understanding into their design environments, processes, what works and what does not work, key areas of concern in implementing system designs have been identified and a recommended design methodology to overcome these challenges has been developed. This bookβs content has a strong focus on design teams that are spread across sites. The goal being to increase the productivity of FPGA design teams by establishing a common methodology across design teams; enabling the exchange of design blocks across teams. Coverage includes the complete FPGA design flow, from the basics to advanced techniques. β’ Presents complete, field-tested methodology for FPGA design, focused on design reuse across design teams; β’ Offers best practices for FPGA timing closure, in-system debug, and board design; β’ Details techniques to resolve common pitfalls in designing with FPGAs.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Best Practices for Successful FPGA Design....Pages 1-3
Project Management....Pages 5-7
Design Specification....Pages 9-13
Resource Scoping....Pages 15-21
Design Environment....Pages 23-28
Board Design....Pages 29-40
Power and Thermal Analysis....Pages 41-50
RTL Design....Pages 51-78
IP and Design Reuse....Pages 79-90
The Hardware to Software Interface....Pages 91-94
Functional Verification....Pages 95-106
Timing Closure....Pages 107-132
In-System Debug....Pages 133-144
Design Sign-Off....Pages 145-146
Back Matter....Pages 147-151
β¦ Subjects
Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design
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