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The FPGA Programming Handbook - Second Edition
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The FPGA Programming Handbook - Second Edition

by Frank Bruno, Guy Eschemann
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
550 pages
11h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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7

Math, Parallelism, and Pipelined Design

In the last chapter, we looked at FPGA resources and how to use them. We went into detail about RAM, DSP blocks, and PLLs. We also looked at how we can interface with external components using tri-state IO, I2C, and PWM.

In this chapter, we’ll look at some ways that set FPGAs apart from microcontrollers and microprocessors. Microprocessors are custom-designed ASICs that can have very high performance when running at very high frequencies – up to 5 GHz as of writing this book. These processors are general-purpose, meaning they need to balance their operations for a wide variety of tasks. In contrast, the Artix 7 we are targeting can hit speeds of up to 300-400 MHz. Higher-end FPGAs can hit speeds of up ...

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