EDN

FPGA-to-ASIC conversion a crucial concern

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 ...
EDN

An FPGA primer for ASIC designers

With the advent of new technologies in IC design and complexity of the business models, chip designers may want to explore different choices available to them for implementation. ASICs have been the ...
AV Network

Justin Kennington on AV Supply Chain Using FPGA vs. ASIC Chips

SDVoE Alliance President, Justin Kennington shares his perspective on how FPGA versus ASIC chips impacts the product supply chain in the AV industry. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA And System Designs Get To Market Faster Leveraging ASIC-Proven Analysis Tools

Digital systems need clocks. Today’s designs require more from clocking schemes than ever before, and it’s likely this trend will continue. Increasing power constraints have resulted in finer-grained ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The FPGA Alternative

Until a few years ago, SoC designers focused almost exclusively on ASICs. While it was theoretically possible to create an SoC design for an FPGA, the programmable chips were too bulky and pricey to ...
Electronic Design

Structured ASICs Plan To Outpace FPGAs

Although it lacks the reprogrammability of an FPGA, this structured ASIC promises to deliver 350 MHz of system performance, densities of up to 2.2 million ASIC gates, and 8.8 Mb of memory. System ...
Hackaday

Your Own Open Source ASIC: SkyWater-PDK Plans First 130 Nm Wafer In 2020

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 Specific ...
Electronic Design

Structured ASICs Compete With, And Complement, FPGAs

Once the prototyping and beta testing is done and a system goes into production, designers often will wonder: "With the higher per-chip cost of an FPGA, why not replace the FPGA with an ASIC?" But the ...
The Next Platform

FPGA Based Deep Learning Accelerators Take on ASICs

Over the last couple of years, the idea that the most efficient and high performance way to accelerate deep learning training and inference is with a custom ASIC—something designed to fit the specific ...
Digi Times

FPGA vs ASIC: Altera CEO highlights FPGA's advantage in AI era

Embedded World 2025 officially commenced this week in Nuremberg, Germany, with Sandra Rivera, CEO of FPGA company Altera, delivering the keynote address. In her presentation, Rivera discussed key ...
Design News

Is Platypus from Zero ASIC the FPGA equivalent to RISC-V?

Before I tell you what I’m about to tell you, let’s first refresh our minds as to RISC-V processors. Why? Well, because even though what I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with RISC-V per se, in ...