Title :
FPGA architectures for ASIC hardware emulators
Author :
Khan, Ubaid R. ; Owen, Henry L. ; Hughes, Joseph L A
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
The increasing complexity available in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and the requirement for reduced design time have increased the importance of hardware emulators for ASIC system verification prior to first silicon. The authors review current ASIC hardware emulators based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), including their limitations and constraints. Based on these characteristics, FPGA kernel architectures and related technologies are identified that will significantly improve the performance and capabilities of ASIC hardware emulators
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; circuit analysis computing; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; logic CAD; programmable logic arrays; ASIC hardware emulators; FPGA architectures; kernel architectures; system verification; Application specific integrated circuits; Costs; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Kernel; Nearest neighbor searches; Silicon; Software prototyping; System testing; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC Conference and Exhibit, 1993. Proceedings., Sixth Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Rochester, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1375-5
DOI :
10.1109/ASIC.1993.410733
