FPGAs Flex Their DSP Muscles: Pros at Signal Processing

摘要

Today's FPGAs provide the kind of system-oriented digital signal processing (DSP) requirements in demand across a variety of applications—including broadcast video, financial processing systems, machine leaning, software-defined radio and many others. Meanwhile, it is already a given these days that FPGAs have become complete systems-on-chips (SoCs). While the trend toward FPGAs with general-purpose CPU cores embedded on them is nothing new, the latest crop FPGA architectures have moved toward supporting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning types of processing. Even within the past six months, FPGA vendors have announced new solutions that improve upon these processing levels. Aside from CPU and DSP processing, another big advantage of FPGAs lies in their ample, programmable, high-speed I/O, which is why they are often found close to the analog-to-digital converters (ADC) in radio frequency (RF) and radar applications.