2065-19 Advanced Training Course on FPGA Design and VHDL for Hardware Simulation and Synthesis 26 October - 20 November, 2009 FPGA Design & VHDL Fundamentals of FPGAs Nizar Abdallah ACTEL Corp. 2061 Stierlin Court Mountain View CA 94043-4655 U.S.A. FPGA Design & VHDL Nizar Abdallah [email protected] October 2009 Fundamentals of FPGAs Agenda FPGA Fundamentals (cid:31) Mixed-Signal FPGAs (cid:31) Actel Fusion Architecture (cid:31) FPGA Design Considerations (cid:31) Trends (cid:31) Choosing an FPGA (cid:31) Development Tools (cid:31) Summary (cid:31) Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 3 FPGA Fundamentals: A Brief History Before FPGAs (cid:31) Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 4 FPGA Fundamentals: A Brief History Before FPGAs: Simple PLDs (SPLDs)–PROMs (cid:31) Maxfield, Clive “The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs” Elsevier Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 5 FPGA Fundamentals: A Brief History Before FPGAs: Simple PLDs (SPLDs)–PLAs (cid:31) Maxfield, Clive “The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs” Elsevier Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 6 FPGA Fundamentals: A Brief History Before FPGAs: Simple PLDs (SPLDs)–PALs (cid:31) Maxfield, Clive “The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs” Elsevier Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 7 FPGA Fundamentals: A Brief History Before FPGAs: Complex PLDs (CPLDs) (cid:31) Maxfield, Clive “The Design Warrior’s Guide to FPGAs” Elsevier Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 8 FPGA Fundamentals: A Brief History The GAP (cid:31) Actel Corporation Confidential ©2009 9