You're reading from Architecting and Building High-Speed SoCs Design, develop, and debug complex FPGA based systems-on-chip

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810999

Length 426 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

FPGA

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Mounir Maaref

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Fundamentals and the Main Features of High-Speed SoC and FPGA Designs

2. Chapter 1: Introducing FPGA Devices and SoCs FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: FPGA Devices and SoC Design Tools

4. Chapter 3: Basic and Advanced On-Chip Busses and Interconnects

5. Chapter 4: Connecting High-Speed Devices Using Buses and Interconnects

6. Chapter 5: Basic and Advanced SoC Interfaces

7. Part 2: Implementing High-Speed SoC Designs in an FPGA

8. Chapter 6: What Goes Where in a High-Speed SoC Design

9. Chapter 7: FPGA SoC Hardware Design and Verification Flow

10. Chapter 8: FPGA SoC Software Design Flow

11. Chapter 9: SoC Design Hardware and Software Integration

12. Part 3: Implementation and Integration of Advanced High-Speed FPGA SoCs

13. Chapter 10: Building a Complex SoC Hardware Targeting an FPGA

14. Chapter 11: Addressing the Security Aspects of an FPGA-Based SoC

15. Chapter 12: Building a Complex Software with an Embedded Operating System Flow

16. Chapter 13: Video, Image, and DSP Processing Principles in an FPGA and SoCs

17. Chapter 14: Communication and Control Systems Implementation in FPGAs and SoCs

18. Index

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FPGA hardware design flow and tools overview

This section introduces the steps involved in the FPGA hardware design and provides an overview of the associated tools, along with each step.

FPGA hardware design flow

The FPGA hardware design process is similar to the ASIC hardware design process that we covered in the previous chapter. Besides the high ASIC NRE cost and its long time to market path compared to an FPGA design process, the main technical difference is that the choice of features the designer can use and combine to produce a working FPGA device is limited by what the FPGA device itself can offer. However, there is a rich list of devices and features that usually meet many demanding and challenging system requirements. Once the FPGA design specification has been finalized and the target FPGA device has been chosen, the design flow will look as follows:

Figure 2.1 – FPGA hardware design flow