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14 years ago

LPMs and ASICs

I've been working on a digital signal processing design for a Cyclone IV design and have been using LPM-based arithmetic blocks in order to get the clock speed up. My client just asked me if an...
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14 years ago

Major ASIC EDA tools (like Synopsys) also provide various kinds of megafunction/IP cores in their library. First you need to know the target fab process of your ASIC client, then check if with this particular process, your megafunction/IP is supported in the library of your synthesis tool.

(Basic arithmetic blocks, like adder and multiplier, usually can be directly synthesized with ASIC tools.)