Venkat wrote:
> I have a question regarding migration of design from Xilinx FPGA to
> ASIC. There are lot of Xilinx IP Cores(I am sure even Altera will have
> too) which are commonly used for Arithmetic Purposes. For instance my
> design uses the Xilinx FFT/IFFT IP Cores and if the design has to be
> moved to the ASIC at later stages, can Xilinx Provide the netlist for
> ASIC technology as well?
The only sane way to design is to use 3rd party IP that can be ported
to ASIC or design the IP yourself. Xilinx will not give you the IP
for ASIC porting. It might not be even very suitable for that because
it is partly full custom hard IP partly soft IP. Maybe if you have deep
enough pockets and big enough company behind you might get some deal,
but I wouldn't count on it.
If the
FPGA is only a prototyping vechile before ASIC, the design should
be done for the ASIC and ported to
FPGA. The
FPGA port will be
suboptimal, it might require a big
FPGA, low clock frequency etc. but
can be used for prototyping.
Vendor specific IP cores are a way to force the user to use one
FPGA
architecture, and also force to it in the future if the designs are
updated etc.
--Kim