IS FPGA A SIMPLER PUZZLE FOR ASIC DESIGNERS?

摘要

Over the last 10 years, FPGA vendors have made great strides in overcoming the shortcomings of FPGAs and taking share from the ASIC market. In the late 1990s, FPGA vendors increased therncapacity of their devices to rival midsized ASICs. Then, circa 2001, FPGA vendors improved the performance of their devices to compete with midsized ASICs. Though FPGAs still consume much more power than ASICs of comparable densities and performance, last year, FPGA vendors made great strides to stabilize the amount of power that FPGAs consume.