FPGA prototyping

October 21, 2015

FPGA-based prototyping 3: Which board do I need?

Part three of our series looks at the choices you face as you decide whether to build or buy a board.
September 28, 2015

FPGA-based prototyping 2: Understand the real cost

Part two of our series on FPGA-based prototyping looks at two critical factors to address before a project begins: budgeting and high-level implementation.
September 12, 2015
Dr Lauro Rizzatti is a verification consultant and industry expert on hardware emulation.

Skeet shooting and design debug

In-circuit emulation is attractive but brings with it debug-visibility issues. There are ways to restructure the environment to make bug hunting much more deterministic.
September 7, 2015

FPGA-based prototyping 1: What’s all this buzz about?

This multi-part series addresses various aspects of FPGA-based prototyping. Future installments will address budgeting and implementation, but we start by looking at why the technique is generating so much interest.
August 21, 2015
Visual: cars speeding along a road

Why emulation performance doesn’t matter (on its own)

Emulation performance is a key metric in verification. But it is far from being the only consideration. How long it takes to get a design onto a verification platform and aspects such as debug are as important. These factors will control how verification platforms are deployed during a project's life cycle.
August 4, 2015
Mick Posner is Director of Product Marketing for Synopsys' FPGA-Based Prototyping Solutions.

Building better debug facilities for bigger FPGA-based prototypes

The introduction of bigger FPGAs enables more complex prototypes - but makes debugging more of a challenge. Here's one way to address the issue.
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April 27, 2015

Enabling FPGA prototyping of large ASIC and SoC designs

How tool parallelism, automatic partitioning, deep debug memories and time domain multiplexing eases FPGA prototyping of large ASIC and SoC designs
April 20, 2015

Developing and integrating configurable GPU IP using FPGA-based prototyping

How Imagination Technologies used FPGA-based prototyping to develop its GPU IP and integrate it into a real world system
October 15, 2014

Accelerating ‘time to prototype’ with ProtoCompiler

A look at a tool and a flow that makes it easier to put designs on to a HAPS physical prototyping system for verification, debug and software development purposes
June 15, 2014
Chips on a wafer

Early tape-out: smart verification or expensive mistake?

Is it worth trying to iron out all the bugs in an SoC before taping out, or should design teams anticipating a re-spin go to silicon earlier and use the chips that come back as verification accelerators?

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