Electronic Design

FPGA Prototyping Tool Aligns With ASIC Flow

This FPGA-Synthesis Tool Offers The Prototyping Capabilities Required By RF-Intensive Systems And A Migration Path To ASIC Product Design. Over a third of all high-end ASIC designers now use FPGAs for ...
Design-Reuse

An FPGA primer for ASIC designers

With the advent of new technologies in IC design and complexity of the business models, chip designers may want to explore different choices available to them for implementation. ASICs have been the ...
EDN

Demonstrating ASIC IP performance and quality demands an FPGA-neutral design flow

Companies designing new system-on-chip (SoC) products are subject to ongoing market pressure to do more with less and achieve higher returns. The result is shrinking engineering teams, reduced design ...
Semiconductor Engineering

SpyGlass Application In An FPGA To ASIC Conversion Flow

Mapping from a field programmable gate array (FPGA) to an application specific IC (ASIC) is subject to some limitations. This white paper identifies some of the most common limitations in this mapping ...
Embedded

The four Rs of efficient system design

New design languages and new chips and systems mean a whole new set of design gotchas for today's developers. Once-simple tasks become difficult and, thankfully, once-difficult tasks become easy. This ...
Electronic Design

FPGAs Ride Tools Into ASIC Territory

As their on-chip resources and gate count grow, more ASIC-like implementation flows push FPGAs into unlikely applications. When pondering your next-generation system design, you may ask yourself ...
Business Wire

ProDesign Joins Synopsys in-Sync Program to Enable Unified ASIC Prototyping and Verification; Common ASIC Flow Optimized for Customer Productivity

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2005--ProDesign USA, a leading supplier of high-speed FPGA-based ASIC verification platforms, today announced that it has joined the Synopsys in-Sync(R) ...
Design-Reuse

Magma and ChipX Team to Deliver Unified RTL-to-GDSII Design Flow for Structured ASIC Platforms

Magma design flow supports ChipX CX5000 and future structured ASIC architectures SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 14, 2004 - Magma® Design Automation Inc. (Nasdaq: LAVA), a provider of chip design ...
New Electronics

HES-DVM simulation acceleration flow for Microchip FPGA designs

Aldec, an expert in mixed-HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, has introduced a HES-DVM simulation acceleration flow for Microchip’s PolarFire, ...
EDN

An FPGA primer for ASIC designers

With the advent of new technologies in IC design and complexity of the business models, chip designers may want to explore different choices available to them for implementation. ASICs have been the ...