Factoring total system cost into FPGA buying decisions

摘要

Over the past decade, FPGAs have achieved widespread adoption across an expanding array of applications. By offering a universal silicon platform that can quickly be programmed for a specific application and repro-grammed with each iteration of a design, these highly flexible devices have quickly become a mainstay of electronic system design. FPGAs have yet to achieve widespread adoption in high-volume applications. When engineers are ready to migrate designs to higher-volume production levels, standard-cell-based ASICs usually offer the best design choice.