Experimenting with FPGA

Abstract

The trend towards greater integration of hardware continues, with the attendant benefits of increased density, speed, manufacturability, and reliability. When the updating of an existing design to a new hardware technology becomes necessary, its adaptation must allow for the differences in speed, structure and function of the new hardware medium. With the appearance of hardware description languages and the powerful EDA tools now available, the prospect of speeding up such a process appears plausible.