Processors and FPGAs Quo Vadis?

Author

Tanurhan, Yankin

Author_Institution

Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, CA

Volume

39

Issue

11

fYear

2006

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

110

Abstract

Electronic applications continue to demand increased flexibility, configurability, and performance, along with reduced power consumption, board space, and cost. This is increasing pressure to integrate analog, memory, logic, and soft microcontroller unit (MCU) implementations into a single-system chip. As a result, analog, microcontroller, and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) suppliers are adding configurability to their product lines. As the race to develop programmable system chip solutions heats up, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) suppliers have a leg up on the competition because programmable logic has proved to be the most difficult of the necessary technologies to master

Keywords

embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; system-on-chip; ASIC; FPGA; analog circuits; application-specific integrated circuit supplier; electronic application; field-programmable gate array supplier; memory circuits; microprocessor chip; product line configurability; programmable logic circuits; programmable system chip solution development; single-system chip; soft microcontroller unit implementation; Application specific integrated circuits; Costs; DRAM chips; Field programmable gate arrays; Nonvolatile memory; Random access memory; Read only memory; Read-write memory; Silicon; Time to market; Embedded computing; Programmable system chips;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2006.395

Filename

4014782