A comparison of FPGA and FPAA technologies for a signal processing application

Author

Selow, Roberto ; Lopes, Heitor S. ; Lima, Carlos R Erig

Author_Institution

Dept. de Eng. Eletr., Univ. Positivo, Curitiba, Brazil

fYear

2009

fDate

Aug. 31 2009-Sept. 2 2009

Firstpage

230

Lastpage

235

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison between two technologies for reconfigurable circuits: FPGA´s and FPAA´s. The comparison is based on a case study of the area of industrial control using simulations with both types of reconfigurable devices. Several design issues are discussed, including the ease of implementation, accuracy, capacity, consumption and size, among others. Based on the case study, we present qualitative directions to choose the most suitable reconfigurable device for similar applications.

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; field programmable analogue arrays; field programmable gate arrays; reconfigurable architectures; FPAA technology; FPGA technology; field programmable analog array; field programmable gate array; industrial control; reconfigurable circuit; signal processing application; Array signal processing; Control systems; Digital signal processing; Equations; Field programmable analog arrays; Field programmable gate arrays; Industrial control; Microprocessors; Programmable logic arrays; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2009. FPL 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

ISSN

1946-1488

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3892-1

Electronic_ISBN

1946-1488

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPL.2009.5272306

Filename

5272306