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13 years ago

What if design is too big for an FPGA

I was wondering about what to do if a design is too big for an FPGA. Suppose I am trying to make a DSP circuit like the one for H.264 or MPEG video encoding and the FPGA has insufficient resources. O...
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13 years ago

"Ordering an ASIC" is not trivial, and if you're in FPGA developing an ASIC wont be an option. Good design at the front end will help minimise these problems. It will also depend on other limits - some people simply cannot get a larger or more FPGAs, so a redesign may be the only option.