Rapid System Prototyping with FPGAs: Accelerating the design process

✍ Scribed by RC Cofer, Benjamin F. Harding

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Series: Embedded Technology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The push to move products to market as quickly and cheaply as possible is fiercer than ever, and accordingly, engineers are always looking for new ways to provide their companies with the edge over the competition. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), which are faster, denser, and more cost-effective than traditional programmable logic devices (PLDs), are quickly becoming one of the most widespread tools that embedded engineers can utilize in order to gain that needed edge. FPGAs are especially popular for prototyping designs, due to their superior speed and efficiency. This book hones in on that rapid prototyping aspect of FPGA use, showing designers exactly how they can cut time off production cycles and save their companies money drained by costly mistakes, via prototyping designs with FPGAs first. Reading it will take a designer with a basic knowledge of implementing FPGAs to the "next-level" of FPGA use because unlike broad beginner books on FPGAs, this book presents the required design skills in a focused, practical, example-oriented manner. In-the-trenches expert authors assure the most applicable advice to practicing engineers Dual focus on successfully making critical decisions and avoiding common pitfalls appeals to engineers pressured for speed and perfection *Hardware and software are both covered, in order to address the growing trend toward "cross-pollination" of engineering expertise

✦ Table of Contents

Rapid System Prototyping with FPGAs
......Page 2
Contents
......Page 8
Acknowledgements
......Page 14
About the Authors
......Page 16
1 Introduction
......Page 18
2 FPGA Fundamentals
......Page 30
3 Optimizing the Development Cycle
......Page 52
4 System Engineering
......Page 68
5 FPGA Device-Level Design Decisions
......Page 88
6 Board-Level Design Decisions and Allocation
......Page 104
7 Design Implementation......Page 120
8 Design Simulation
......Page 144
9 Design Constraints and Optimization
......Page 154
10 Configuration
......Page 172
11 Board-Level Testing
......Page 180
12 Advanced Topics Introduction
......Page 184
13 Cores and Intellectual Property
......Page 188
14 Embedded Processing Cores
......Page 202
15 Digital Signal Processing
......Page 228
16 Advanced Interconnect
......Page 244
17 Bringing It All Together
......Page 254
A Rapid System Prototyping Technical References
......Page 266
B Design Phases
......Page 288
Abbreviations and Acronyms
......Page 304
Index
......Page 312