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Schulz, Arne and Nebel, Wolfgang

Abstract

This article in a german computer magazin describes -embedded in an article about reconfigurable computing (Eine Revolution in Silizium - a revolution in silicon) of Frank Fremerey - the view of an hardware designer on the development of digital designs for FPGAs. Implementing designs into hardware is a time consuming process but it's worth doing it. Comparing the speed of software (running on a microprocessor) vs. hardware shows the big advantage of dedicated hardware in terms of speed and power consumption. Nowadays the development of digital circuits is a complex procedure due to large algorithms which implies lots of different possible solutions (design space exploration). The article shows the standard top-down design flow from high (specification-level) to low abstraction levels (layout-level), respecting both ways: the typical ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) and FPGA (field programmable gate array) flow. The main focus is on econfigurable computing (FPGAs) and their functionality resp. internal structure.

Publishing date

01 / 2000

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article