FPGAs 101
FPGAs 101

Author: Gina Smith

Publisher: Newnes

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0080959652

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FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) can be found in applications such as smart phones, mp3 players, medical imaging devices, and for aerospace and defense technology. FPGAs consist of logic blocks and programmable interconnects. This allows an engineer to start with a blank slate and program the FPGA for a specific task, for instance, digital signal processing, or a specific device, for example, a software-defined radio. Due to the short time to market and ability to reprogram to fix bugs without having to respin FPGAs are in increasingly high demand. This book is for the engineer that has not yet had any experience with this electrifying and growing field. The complex issue of FPGA design is broken down into four distinct phases - Design / Synthesis / Simulation / Place & Route. Numerous step-by-step examples along with source code accompany the discussion. A brief primer of one of the popular FPGA and hardware languages, VHDL, is incorporated for a simple yet comprehensive learning tool. While a general technology background is assumed, no direct hardware development understanding is needed. Also, included are details on tool-set up, verifaction techniques, and test benches. Reference material consists of a quick reference guide, reserved words, and common VHDL/FPGA terms. - Learn how to design and develop FPGAs -- no prior experience necessary! - Breaks down the complex design and development of FPGAs into easy-to-learn building blocks - Contains examples, helpful tips, and step-by-step tutorials for synthesis, implementation, simulation, and programming phases

Security Trends for FPGAS
Security Trends for FPGAS

Author: Benoit Badrignans

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-06-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 940071338X

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In Security Trends for FPGA's the authors present an analysis of current threats against embedded systems and especially FPGAs. They discuss about requirements according to the FIPS standard in order to build a secure system. This point is of paramount importance as it guarantees the level of security of a system. Also highlighted are current vulnerabilities of FPGAs at all the levels of the security pyramid. It is essential from a design point of view to be aware of all the levels in order to provide a comprehensive solution. The strength of a system is defined by its weakest point; there is no reason to enhance other protection means, if the weakest point remains untreated. Many severe attacks have considered this weakness in order not to face brute force attack complexity. Several solutions are proposed in Security Trends for FPGA's especially at the logical, architecture and system levels in order to provide a global solution.

Using Fine Grain Approaches for Highly Reliable Design of FPGA-based Systems in Space
Using Fine Grain Approaches for Highly Reliable Design of FPGA-based Systems in Space

Author: Mahtab Niknahad

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 3731500388

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Nowadays using SRAM based FPGAs in space missions is increasingly considered due to their flexibility and reprogrammability. A challenge is the devices sensitivity to radiation effects that increased with modern architectures due to smaller CMOS structures. This work proposes fault tolerance methodologies, that are based on a fine grain view to modern reconfigurable architectures. The focus is on SEU mitigation challenges in SRAM based FPGAs which can result in crucial situations.

Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs
Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs

Author: Hassan Hassan

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2009-09-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0080922341

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Low-Power Design of Nanometer FPGAs Architecture and EDA is an invaluable reference for researchers and practicing engineers concerned with power-efficient, FPGA design. State-of-the-art power reduction techniques for FPGAs will be described and compared. These techniques can be applied at the circuit, architecture, and electronic design automation levels to describe both the dynamic and leakage power sources and enable strategies for codesign. - Low-power techniques presented at key FPGA design levels for circuits, architectures, and electronic design automation, form critical, "bridge" guidelines for codesign - Comprehensive review of leakage-tolerant techniques empowers designers to minimize power dissipation - Provides valuable tools for estimating power efficiency/savings of current, low-power FPGA design techniques

The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs
The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs

Author: Clive Maxfield

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2004-06-16

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0080477135

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Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that provide a fast, low-cost way for embedded system designers to customize products and deliver new versions with upgraded features, because they can handle very complicated functions, and be reconfigured an infinite number of times. In addition to introducing the various architectural features available in the latest generation of FPGAs, The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs also covers different design tools and flows.This book covers information ranging from schematic-driven entry, through traditional HDL/RTL-based simulation and logic synthesis, all the way up to the current state-of-the-art in pure C/C++ design capture and synthesis technology. Also discussed are specialist areas such as mixed hardward/software and DSP-based design flows, along with innovative new devices such as field programmable node arrays (FPNAs). Clive "Max" Maxfield is a bestselling author and engineer with a large following in the electronic design automation (EDA)and embedded systems industry. In this comprehensive book, he covers all the issues of interest to designers working with, or contemplating a move to, FPGAs in their product designs. While other books cover fragments of FPGA technology or applications this is the first to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use for embedded systems. - First book to focus exclusively and comprehensively on FPGA use in embedded designs - World-renowned best-selling author - Will help engineers get familiar and succeed with this new technology by providing much-needed advice on choosing the right FPGA for any design project

Robotic Computing on FPGAs
Robotic Computing on FPGAs

Author: Shaoshan Liu

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1636391664

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This book provides a thorough overview of the state-of-the-art field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based robotic computing accelerator designs and summarizes their adopted optimized techniques. This book consists of ten chapters, delving into the details of how FPGAs have been utilized in robotic perception, localization, planning, and multi-robot collaboration tasks. In addition to individual robotic tasks, this book provides detailed descriptions of how FPGAs have been used in robotic products, including commercial autonomous vehicles and space exploration robots.

Security of FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Computing Environments
Security of FPGA-Accelerated Cloud Computing Environments

Author: Jakub Szefer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 3031453956

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This book addresses security of FPGA-accelerated cloud computing environments. It presents a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in security threats as well as defenses. The book further presents design principles to help in the evaluation and designs of cloud-based FPGA deployments which are secure from information leaks and potential attacks.

FPGAs: Instant Access
FPGAs: Instant Access

Author: Clive Maxfield

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-04-08

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0080560113

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FPGAs are central to electronic design! The engineers designing these devices are in need of essential information at a moment's notice. The Instant Access Series provides all the critical content that a computer design engineer needs in his or her daily work. This book provides an introduction to FPGAs as well as succinct overviews of fundamental concepts and basic programming. FPGAs are a customizable chip flexible enough to be deployed in a wide range of products and applications. There are several basic design flows detailed including ones based in C/C++, DSP, and HDL. This book is filled with images, figures, tables, and easy to find tips and tricks for the engineer that needs material fast to complete projects to deadline. - Tips and tricks feature that will help engineers get info fast and move on to the next issue - Easily searchable content complete with tabs, chapter table of contents, bulleted lists, and boxed features - Just the essentials, no need to page through material not needed for the current project

FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications
FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications

Author: Fernanda Kastensmidt

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-07

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 3319143522

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This book introduces the concepts of soft errors in FPGAs, as well as the motivation for using commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGAs in mission-critical and remote applications, such as aerospace. The authors describe the effects of radiation in FPGAs, present a large set of soft-error mitigation techniques that can be applied in these circuits, as well as methods for qualifying these circuits under radiation. Coverage includes radiation effects in FPGAs, fault-tolerant techniques for FPGAs, use of COTS FPGAs in aerospace applications, experimental data of FPGAs under radiation, FPGA embedded processors under radiation and fault injection in FPGAs. Since dedicated parallel processing architectures such as GPUs have become more desirable in aerospace applications due to high computational power, GPU analysis under radiation is also discussed.

Circuit Design with VHDL, third edition
Circuit Design with VHDL, third edition

Author: Volnei A. Pedroni

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 026235392X

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A completely updated and expanded comprehensive treatment of VHDL and its applications to the design and simulation of real, industry-standard circuits. This comprehensive treatment of VHDL and its applications to the design and simulation of real, industry-standard circuits has been completely updated and expanded for the third edition. New features include all VHDL-2008 constructs, an extensive review of digital circuits, RTL analysis, and an unequaled collection of VHDL examples and exercises. The book focuses on the use of VHDL rather than solely on the language, with an emphasis on design examples and laboratory exercises. The third edition begins with a detailed review of digital circuits (combinatorial, sequential, state machines, and FPGAs), thus providing a self-contained single reference for the teaching of digital circuit design with VHDL. In its coverage of VHDL-2008, it makes a clear distinction between VHDL for synthesis and VHDL for simulation. The text offers complete VHDL codes in examples as well as simulation results and comments. The significantly expanded examples and exercises include many not previously published, with multiple physical demonstrations meant to inspire and motivate students. The book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in VHDL and digital circuit design, and can be used as a professional reference for VHDL practitioners. It can also serve as a text for digital VLSI in-house or academic courses.