Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs: Architecture and EDA

Author: 
Mohab Anis
Author: 
Hassan Hassan
Publisher: 
Morgan Kaufmann
Published on: 
2009
ISBN-13: 
978-0123744388
ISBN-10: 
0123744385
ASIN: 
0123744385
Book Category: 
EDA Tools
Book Category: 
FPGA

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become very popular as embedded components on computing platforms. An FPGA is a viable, reprogrammable design approach that provides a fast time-to-market alternative to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Since FPGA implementations can be customized to fit for any application, their versatility leads to performance gains, and enables reuse of expensive silicon. Although high performance can be achieved in FPGAs, their high levels of power consumption pose a critical design challenge.