Title :
Application-Specific Product Generics
Author :
Lach, John ; Kumar, Vinu Vijay
Author_Institution :
Charles L. Brown Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
Hybrid FPGAs and structured ASICs make it possible to amortize nonrecurring engineering costs across multiple products, but such platforms have high area, performance, and power penalties. A new technique provides the flexibility to implement many product instances while maintaining the qualities of custom ASICs.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; costing; field programmable gate arrays; logic design; application-specific product generics; hybrid FPGA; structured ASIC; Costs; Delay; Digital signal processing; Fabrication; Fabrics; Field programmable gate arrays; Flexible printed circuits; Integrated circuit interconnections; Logic arrays; Reconfigurable logic; ASICs; FPGAs; High-level synthesis; Nonrecurring engineering costs;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2009.244
