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State of the art in FPGA
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Jecel Assumpção Jr
LCR - ICMC - USP
São Carlos
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Xilinx vs Altera
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• First FPGA (1985)
• Sells US$1.7B/year
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• First
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• First CPLD (1988)
• Sells US$1.2B/year
Xilinx vs Altera
• High End = Virtex
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Xilinx vs Altera
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Logic cells
Block RAM
DSP
Tranceivers
I/O
speed
Virtex 6
40nm
75K to 588K
6M to 33M
288 to 864
Up to 48+24
380 to 720
600MHz
Stratix IV
40nm
72K to 803K
7M to 33M
384 to 1024
Up to 48
372 to 920
600MHz
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Bit player: Lattice
• ECP3 - lowest cost FPGA with SERDES
• XP2 - 90nm Flash
• Also ECP2, ECP2M and SC
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Bit player: Actel
• Igloo and ProASIC3 - low power
• SmartFusion and Fusion - mixed signal
• RTAX, RTProASIC3 and RTSX - radiation
tolerance
• Axcelerator, SX-A, eX and MX - antifuse
Bit player: QuickLogic
• Customer Specific Standard Products
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Bit player: Atmel
• Legacy devices - AT6000
• AT40KAL + AVR8 = FPSLIC (Field
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Edinburgh
• 1985 to 1988 - three generations of CAL
up to CAL256
• 1989 - Algotronix formed, CAL1024
• 1993 - bought by Xilinx: XC6200
• Very popular for research, but not
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Imperial College
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Rookie: Silicon Blue
Classic architecture
Low power
Low cost
Internal Flash
Rookie: Achronix
• 1.5GHz
• picoPIPE assynchronous internal
architecture
• SERDES
• DDR3 controllers
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Rookie: Tabula
1.6GHz with 8 multiplexed designs
48 SERDES
5.5MB RAM
220K to 630K logic cells
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Rookie: Tier Logic
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Alternative: eASIC
• Standard Cell ASIC-like unit cost, power
consumption performance and density
• Low up-front development cost
• Simple, FPGA-like design flow
• Device turnaround in only 4-6 weeks
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references
• http://www.xilinx.com/
• http://www.altera.com/
• http://lms.nthu.edu.tw/sys/read_attach.php?i
d=17968
• http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/FPL/trimbergerFPL2007.
pdf
• http://www.fpgaguide.com/overview_frame.html
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http://www.latticesemi.com/
http://www.actel.com/
http://www.quicklogic.com/
http://www.atmel.com/
http://www.algotronix.com/people/tom/albu
m.html
• http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ipage/papers/cam9
5.pdf
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http://www.siliconbluetech.com/
http://www.achronix.com/
http://www.tabula.com/
http://www.tierlogic.com/
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http://www.easic.com/
http://www.stretchinc.com/
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~trips/
http://www.xmos.com/
http://www.mathstar.com/
http://www.tilera.com/
http://www.streamprocessors.com/