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Many designers today are considering FPGAs as well as FPGA tools, IP, and/or FPGA-based boards, for their current or next project. FPGAs are a very attractive solution, but to many are unknown and mystifying. This Insiders' Guide details the issues involved in selecting an FPGA vendor, tool or IP vendor, or board provider as well as presents company profiles on over 50 commercial FPGA, tool, or IP vendors. Here are the detailed contents of the report:

CONTENTS

FPGAs, or "Field Programmable Gate Arrays" show enormous promise for embedded systems - from ASIC prototyping to medical to military to telecommunications. FPGAs are exciting and powerful! But they have their downside as well. This Insiders' Guide outlines the FPGA ecosystem, provides an in-depth survey analysis, offers vendor interviews, and details the FPGA vendor community.

  • THE FPGA ECOSYSTEM
  • FPGA SURVEY RESULTS
  • INTERVIEWS WITH KEY FPGA VENDORS
  • INTERVIEWS WITH KEY FPGA TOOLS VENDORS
  • INTERVIEWS WITH KEY FPGA SERVICE PROVIDERS
  • APPENDICES:
    • Top Internet Resources for FPGAs
    • New FPGA-related Products (last six months)
    • Vendor Guide: FPGA Manufacturers
    • Vendor Guide: FPGA Tool Vendors
    • Vendor Guide: FPGA Board Vendors
    • Vendor Guide: FPGA / DSP Vendors
    • Vendor Guide: FPGA Misc. & Services

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

FPGAs, or "Field Programmable Gate Arrays," show enormous promise for embedded systems - from ASIC prototyping to medical to military to telecommunications applications. A savvy engineer might consider FPGAs because of their processing power, their flexilibity and reprogrammability, their ability to combine and implement "intellectual property" (IP), or a litany of many reasons. FPGAs are exciting and powerful! But they have their downside as well: they are notoriously difficult to program, have a relatively steep learning curve, and the "ecosystem" of providers, tools companies, media outlets, IP, and services around FPGAs is weakly developed.

This Insider's Guide is here to help. First, it outlines the key issues in using FPGAs, identifying the top Internet resources and categorizing FPGA vendors by product offering. Second, a survey of FPGA "experts" and evaluators provides insights into what real engineers are doing (or trying to do) with FPGAs, alongside interviews with vendors of FPGA hardware, software, and/or services. Finally, appendices identify the most important Internet resources and classify companies by product offering.

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  • Table of Contents - preview the "Table of Contents" as well as report introduction.
  • FPGA Ecosystem - preview the guide overview to the "FPGA Ecosystem."
  • FPGA Survey - preview the guide survey analysis of real users of FPGAs, boards, tools, and services.

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