FPGAs: Instant Access

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. Brief Table of Contents
3. Table of Contents
4. List of Figures
5. List of Tables
6. About the Author
7. Chapter 1. The Fundamentals
   1. Why Use FPGAs?
   2. Applications
   3. Some Technology Background
   4. Instant summary
8. Chapter 2. FPGA Architectures
   1. More on Programming Technologies
   2. Fine-, medium-, and coarse-grained architectures
   3. Logic Blocks
   4. LUT versus Distributed RAM versus SR
   5. Slicing and Dicing
   6. Embedded RAMs
   7. Embedded Multipliers, Adders, etc.
   8. Embedded Processor Cores
   9. Clock Managers
   10. General-purpose I/O
   11. Gigabit Transceivers
   12. Intellectual Property (IP)
   13. System Gates versus Real Gates
   14. Instant summary
9. Chapter 3. Programming (Configuring) an FPGA
   1. —Technology Trade-offs—
   2. Configuration Cells
   3. Antifuse-based FPGAs
   4. SRAM-based FPGAs
   5. Using the JTAG Port
   6. Using an embedded processor
   7. Instant summary
10. Chapter 4. FPGA vs. ASIC Designs
    1. When You Switch from ASIC to FPGA Design, or Vice Versa
    2. Coding styles
    3. Pipelining and levels of logic
    4. Asynchronous design practices
    5. Clock considerations
    6. Register and latch considerations
    7. Resource sharing (time-division multiplexing)
    8. State machine encoding
    9. Test methodologies
    10. Migrating ASIC Designs to FPGAs and Vice Versa
    11. Instant summary
11. Chapter 5. “Traditional” Design Flows
    1. Schematic-based design flows
    2. CAE + CAD = EDA
    3. HDL-based design flows
    4. Instant summary
12. Chapter 6. Other Design Flows
    1. C/C++ -Based Design Flows
    2. DSP-Based Design Flows
    3. Embedded Processor-Based Design Flows
    4. Partitioning a Design into Its Hardware and Software Components
    5. Using an FPGA as Its Own Development Environment
    6. Improving Visibility in the Design
    7. A Few Coverification Alternatives
    8. Instant Summary
13. Chapter 7. Using Design Tools
    1. Simulation Tools
    2. Synthesis (logic/HDL versus physically aware)
    3. Timing analysis
    4. Verification in general
    5. Formal verification
    6. Miscellaneous
    7. Instant summary
14. Chapter 8. Choosing the Right Device
    1. Choosing
    2. Technology
    3. Basic resources and packaging
    4. General-purpose I/O interfaces
    5. Embedded multipliers, rams, etc.
    6. Embedded processor cores
    7. Gigabit I/O capabilities
    8. IP availability
    9. Speed grades
    10. Future FPGA developments
    11. Instant summary