Features, Design Tools, and Application Domains of FPGAs

摘要: In the past two decades, advances in programmable device technologies, both hardware and software arenas, have been extraordinary. The original application of rapid prototyping has complemented with a large number new applications that take advantage excellent characteristics latest devices. High speed, very components, supported protocols, addition ready- to-use intellectual property cores make devices preferred choice implementation even deployment mass production quantities. This paper surveys advanced features, design tools, domains for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). main structure modern FPGAs are first described to show their versatility abundance available resources. Software resources also discussed, as they enablers efficient exploitation capabilities these Current described, such configurable computing, dynamically reconfigurable systems, system prototyping, communication processors interfaces, signal processing. presents authors' prospective view how will evolve enter future.