ASIC designs continue to increase in size, complexity, and cost (for the purpose of these discussions, the term ASIC is assumed to encompass ASSP and SoC devices). At the same time, aggressive ...

Remember when ASIC was ASIC and FPGA was an afterthought? It wasn't that long ago–maybe 10 years–but technology and market forces have done a lot to blur the distinction. Where there had been a clear ...

You might have caught Maya Posch’s article about the first open-source ASIC tools from Google and SkyWater Technology. It envisions increased access to make custom chips — Application S… ...

“FPGA based deep learning accelerators meet most requirements,” Yao says. “They have acceptable power and performance, they can support customized architecture and have high on-chip memory bandwidth ...

It is clear that FPGAs are great for prototyping and low-volume production. It's also clear, however, that any relatively complex mid- to high-volume design for which power consumption, component cost ...

As their on-chip resources and gate count grow, more ASIC-like implementation flows push FPGAs into unlikely applications.

Advances in FPGA architectures and the use of 90-nm process rules have allowed the latest generation of FPGAs to achieve levels of integration and performance comparable to many ASICs. The latest ...

How ASIC and FPGA flows differ There are many steps in the ASIC design flow methodology which are not needed for an FPGA based design. Design for testability, including memory BIST, is not needed.

SDVoE Alliance President, Justin Kennington shares his perspective on how FPGA versus ASIC chips impacts the product supply chain in the AV industry.

FPGA Applications: Uses in the Workplace One reason FPGA is often used in engineering contexts is because it is a type of semi-custom integrated circuit. Engineers can use FPGA to develop new types of ...

Google surprised the chip world when it introduced the TensorFlow Processing Unit, an ASIC, to train the neural networks the company needs to power Google Search, Google Photo, and many other ...