FPGA prototyping of a multi-million gate System-on-Chip (SoC) design for wireless USB applications

摘要

The complexity and costs involved in today's SoC designs makes Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's) prototyping of ASIC's as means of pre-silicon SoC validation, to accelerate system software development and to meet the time-to-market requirements. In this paper, we present a FPGA prototyping used in the implementation, verification and validation of a multimillion gate SoC designed for wireless USB application. The purpose of the prototyping was to serve as a method for architectural validation which reduces development cost and avoid duplication of design effort.