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Field-Programmable Gate Arrays serve the fast time-to-market needs and flexibility for low-volume production, and also serve for rapid prototyping or ‘proof-of-concept’ demonstration vehicles. The programmable arrays provide custom logic capability at high levels of performance and moderate cost. They also have the potential to drive “run-time reconfiguration” and “evolvable machines.”

 

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC TECHNOLOGIES

SPLD (Simple Programmable Logic Device): used to be called PALs and GALs

CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device): Low gate count, predictable performance

FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array): Moderate gate count, flexible, high piece-price.

ASIC (Application-specific Integrated Circuit): Large gate count, upfront costs, low piece-price.

SoC (System-on-a-Chip): ASIC with internal multi-vendor IP, internal buses, broad function.

·        FPGAs and CPLDs are sometimes considered SoPCs, Systems-on-a-Programmable-Chip (or PSoCs)

 

Free Stuff

 

FPGA: NEWS

www.edat.com             EDA Today

www.eetimes.com                    Venture capitalist explains new rules for IC startups

www.eedesign.com

www.e-insite.net/ecnmag          www.e-insite.net/ednmag

www.zen-news.com

www.ebnonline.com, www.ebnews.com

www.electronicengineering.com

www.electronics-express.com                          Europe

www.electronicsjournal.com

www.siliconstrategies.com                                Semi Business News

www.xilinx.com/xcell/xcell.htm

www.siliconstrategies.com

www.deepchip.com      also http://www.deepchip.com/dirtpage.fhtml

www.electronicsweekly.co.uk

www.embedded.com                           “Thinking inside the box”

www.bitpipe.com                                 IT news

http://www.chipcenter.com/kc/main.html

http://www.vsi.org/perspectives.htm                  soc news

www.tomshardware.com                      Hardware News

http://icd.pennnet.com

www.edaconnect.com (closed 12/01)

www.instat.com                                    Digital Comms Market Research

www.commsdesign.com

http://www.uky.edu/Subject/communication.html

http://icd.pennwellnet.com/home.cfm     Integrated Communication Design (now part of Lightwave)

 

FPGA: Events

                                                DesignCon 2003 (Santa Clara 1/28/03)

http://www.edsfair.com/e_frame.html                EDSFAIR 2003 (Yokohama 1/30/03)

http://fpga2003.ece.ubc.ca/AdvProg.html          FPGA 2003 (Monterey 2/23/03)

http://asic.union.edu                                          SOC 2003 (Portland 9/17/03)

 

FPGA/PLD General Links

http://www.optimagic.com/                   Optimagic's “Programmable Logic Jump Station”

http://www01.edatoolscafe.com/              “The ASIC, IC, and FPGA Design Place”, EDA Weekly

http://www.epanorama.net/links/fpga.html          Nice links

            http://www.eg3.com/fpga.htm

            http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/fpga/fpga.html

            http://www.fpga-faq.com/                     -from comp.arch.fpga newsgroup

http://microsys6.engr.utk.edu/ece/bouldin_courses/slides/fpga_index.html  FPGA Technology by Dr. Don Bouldin

            http://www.vcc.com/fpga.html               FPGAs, An Enabling Technology

http://www.ece.tntech.edu/TechLinks/FPGA_links.htm  Tennessee Tech 1998

 

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~gilmore/cms/sites.html

http://www.opencores.org/OIPC/projects/OpenTech/OpenTech-Bookmark.htm    LINKS

http://pages.tico.com/chase/hdl.html               lame, old

 

Programmable Chip Vendors:

www.xilinx.com            Enormous site, industry leader (www.lavalogic.com)

www.altera.com           Number two vendor

Altera to spin new FPGA for 90-nm production            eetimes 1/21/03

www.latticesemi.com    Includes Agere (Lucent) Orca, and Vantis lines

Lattice Semiconductor Introduces World's First Infinitely Reconfigurable Instant-On FPGA

            www.actel.com

            www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod3.htm       Also config proms

 

chip express, clear logic, cypress , fast analog solutions, gatefield,

                                    hammercores, Motorola, orbit,

www.quicklogic.com                Programmable SoC, “pASIC”

quickturn

www.starbridgesystems.com     Hypercomputers (FPGA-based)

http://www.walcek.com/dyna/index.html            Dynachip (out-of-business c1999)

 

Links:

http://www.klabs.org/richcontent/fpga_content/pages/notes/fpga_asic_vendors.htm

 

FPGA: EDA/Tool Vendors:

   General

            www.synopsys.com      http://www.synopsys.com/products/fpga/fpga_solution.html

            www.mentor.com

            www.cadence.com

www.nassda.com         Circuit Simulation

http://www.tanner.com/EDA/

www.sigda.org             ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation

 

   HDL

summit

http://www.synopsys.com/products/simulation/vcs_ds.html

 

   FPGA

Open Source FPGA CAD Tools   http://www.jhdl.org/  http://splish.ee.byu.edu/ BYU JHDL

http://www.acc-eda.com/            “PeakFPGA Design Suite (VHDL)”

http://www.translogiccorp.com/   “FPGA Connector”

http://www.crosswinds.net/~ekeller/software_list.html       List of FPGA-based Software

http://www.jad-research.com/      “VerilogTool” – SDF, VCD, Liberty

www.bltinc.com                         Bottom Line – xilinx shop

 

   Synthesis

            www.synplicity.com

http://www.synopsys.com/products/logic/design_compiler.html              http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000211S0011

FPGA synthesis tools lose battle with John Henry

Counting on Gate Counts? Don't count on it

http://diglab14.tamuk.edu/~godinez/asic%20page.htm

 

   Floor-planning

            Synplicity-amplify         http://www.cadence.com/articles/phys_syn_date.html

            morphologic

   Place & Route

   Timing

            Timing Designer (doc support tool)

            PrimeTime (Synopsys delay calculator)

http://www.libtech.com/index.html         IC Timing, Power, and Reliability

   Design Rules, Physical Verification, Modeling and Parameter Extraction

   Power and Signal Integrity

   Tools and Interchange

   Board-level support/tools

            www.indesign-llc.com  

www.qedesign.com

General links

 

FPGA: IP Cores, Consultants, Tools, …   click here

http://www.synopsys.com/products/designware/designware.html            Designware, cores

Xilinx cores/partners page (Xperts) Xilinx XPERTS Program

Altera cores/partners page “AMPP”

www.arc.com  

www.us.design-reuse.com

virtual silicon

 

FPGA:

    Processor cores, CPUs, Embedded Systems, Co-design, etc.

Xilinx Virtex-II Pro       PPC

Altera Excalibur            ARM

Lexra/MIPS

http://www.fpgacpu.org/links.html - Links collection

http://www.dolphin.fr/

http://www.io.com/~guccione/HW_list.html

www.starbridgesystems.com             Hypercomputers (FPGA-based)

http://www.leox.org/about.html

http://www.free-ip.com/cores.htm     6502, …

www.genapro.com                               ‘Flexible System Architecture’

Vast Systems “Meteor”, “Comet”

 

     MEMORIES

www.rambus.com

Samsung

Micron

www.averlogic.com                             App. Specific memory

 

     VIDEO

                http://www.v-site.net/smpte-ne/interestinglinks.html

http://www.cilect.org/links.htm

 

Futures

  RTR (Run-Time Reconfiguration), Evolvable Machines (+Genetic Programming)

            www.genetic-programming.com,           www.genetic-programming.org

            www.genobyte.com

http://www.quickflex.com/spock/index_files/frame.htm

http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~lockwood/jlres95b.html        research

http://smaplab.ri.uah.edu/dmsms/fitzp.htm                      Rapid retargeting

Reconfigurable Computing at CSU

U. Birmingham Reconfigurable Computing

http://www.acrc.unisa.edu.au/cs/rc/       Advanced Computing Research Centre (Australia)

www.arc.com
www.tensilica.com
www.actel.com

http://www.computer.org/dt/dt1998/d1045abs.htm       IEEE: Testing FPGA Interconnect

 

   Asynchronous (Clockless) Systems

            http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/async/index.html

http://www.wkonline.com/d/asynchronous_logic.html

http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/sun/sun100.html   Used in SPARC IIIi

http://research.sun.com/features/async/index.html

http://paradise.ucsd.edu

http://www.mrc.unm.edu/symposiums/prev-symp/symp99/s2/cox/cox.html

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/async/misc/nyt-3-5-2001-sutherland.html

http://komar.cs.stthomas.edu/qm425/02s/Kolnik1.htm

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011025S0074

www.fulcrummicro.com            www.avlsi.com

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~smcpeak/cs250/progress.html

http://jungfrau.usc.edu/links.html

                “Logic Synthesis of Asynchronous Controllers and Interfaces” Ed. J. Cortadella

www.theseus.com

 

Books

Programmable Logic PLDs & FPGAs

HDL Chip Design

Digital Fundamentals with CPLDs, FPGAs, and VHDL

Designing with FPGAs and CPLDs

Architecture & CAD for Deep-Submicron FPGAS

Real World FPGA Design with Verilog with CDROM

http://www.eedesign.org/www.freecore.com/vhdlbooks.htm            review of VHDL books

 

               http://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/              1994        “Computer Aids for VLSI Design”

 

Papers

               www.cedcc.psu.edu/ee497i/asic/hndbk.pdf               “PL/ASICs”, Dave Landis, Penn State

               http://www.vsi.org/library/articles.htm       

 

Research

               http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/FPGA.html     University of Toronto

http://www.ee.duke.edu/Research/VHDL_tutorial/                                        Duke University

http://vlsi.wpi.edu/FPGA_Manual/manual.html                                            Worcester Polytechnic (WPI)

http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/lis/triptych/www/ U. Washington

http://www.klabs.org/fpgas.htm ,

http://www.klabs.org/DEI/lessons_learned/esa_lessons/esa_fpga_001_01-0-0.pdf         NASA

http://microsys6.engr.utk.edu/~bouldin/montreal_98.html                             U. Tennessee Knoxville

http://www.engr.uky.edu/EE/Stroud/vlsifpga.html                                         U. Kentucky

http://www-crc.stanford.edu/projects/fpga.html                                            Stanford

 

Eval boards

http://www.transtech-dsp.com/io/pmc-fpga02.htm                        Transtech Virtex-II

http://www.ee.upenn.edu/rca/pchardware/demoboard/demoboard.html          U. Penn

               http://fpga.f2g.net                                    Xilinx Spartan-II board

http://www.burched.com.au/                        Xilinx Spartan-IIE board

               http://www.xess.com/                                             Various Xilinx-based, Triscend

               http://www.insightelectronics.com.au/products/xilinx/spartan_ii_kit.htm     Spartan-II

               http://www.gdpspace.com/noflash/fam001.htm          PCI, DSP

 

Training

www.esperan.com                     HDL

www.tm-associates.com            HDL

http://www.asicdsn.com/implemt.html

 

Organizations

               www.acm.org

 

 

ASICs and ASIC conversions

               www.fpgaconversion.com          Xilinx “Hardwire”

               www.flextronicssemi.com         Flextronics (+Orbit)

               www.chipexpress.com

               www.lightstream.com                              ???

 

               http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod55h.htm

               www.forasic.com

 

               www.synopsys.com/epic.html EPIC tools: mixed-signal, timing, power, modeling

 

PLD Links

               http://www.chipcenter.com/pld/

 

PLD building blocks/IP, World PLD market 1998-9

http://www.ebnonline.com/supplements/extras/story/OEG20000406S0019

 

(SPLDs, CPLDs, FPGAs) History, Basics, Architectures, Costs, Market http://agcad.ict.tuwien.ac.at/lehre/seminare/prog_logic_devices_ws0203.pdf

-         A presentation on programmable devices and technology, c. 1999

 

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC: WHAT'S IT TO YA? – Michael Barr, c1999

http://www.embedded.com/1999/9906/9906sr.htm

 

 

Semiconductor Companies: Market Trends

Xilinx, ASIC vendors talk licensing  - Peter Clarke, EE Times, 6/25/2001

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010622S0091               ASICs with programmable arrays

 

 

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