Benefit/Cost of Porting Your Legacy ASIC Designs onto FPGA (PR182-119-0)

SynopsisReduced profit margin impacts every electronics design team in the world. Substantial R&D effort today is centered on cost-cutting and resource-saving measures while trying to achieve performance enhancement at the same time. Such effort is often hampered by large and complex legacy issues. This one-day seminar discusses the typical issues design engineers face when porting ASIC designs onto FPGA. The benefits will be highlighted in the case examples. At the end of the seminar, you will have a better understanding on the issues and benefits of porting ASIC designs onto FPGA. This will enable you to make a more informed assessment of the cost and savings in the ASIC to FPGA undertaking. In general, porting legacy ASICs to FPGA will save cost, board area and improve performance.

This one-day seminar discusses the typical issues design engineers face when porting ASIC designs onto FPGA. The benefits will be highlighted in the case examples. At the end of the seminar, you will have a better understanding on the issues and benefits of porting ASIC designs onto FPGA. This will enable you to make a more informed assessment of the cost and savings in the ASIC to FPGA undertaking. In general, porting legacy ASICs to FPGA will save cost, board area and improve performance.

What You Will Learn

• FPGA overview
• Typical advantages and disadvantages of porting ASIC designs onto FPGA
• Typical issues in the undertaking
• Case studies review

Who Should Attend

• Hardware Project Manager
• Hardware Project Lead
• Hardware System Architect
• Novice FPGA Engineer
• Novice Design Engineer

PrerequisiteNil.

Course MethodologyThis course is conducted in a seminar room. Course material and review case studies will be provided. This is a highly interactive class. An Altera DE2 FPGA Development Kit will be used for the case studies .

Course Duration1 day (9am - 5pm)

Course Structure1) FPGA overview

• Historic development of FPGA
• Future trends
• Existing capabilities
• Existing price
• Exisitng chip packages

2) Issues faced when porting ASIC designs onto FPGA

• Performance
• Cost
• Compatibility
• Analog

3) Benefits of porting ASIC designs onto FPGA

• Review of case study 1
• Review of case study 2

4) Summary of typical issues/benefits

5) Question and answer