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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

I'm not sure how much information there is out there on partial-reconfiguration or if Altera is supporting it yet, but that could also be a potential solution to the hypothetical issue you proposed, assuming not all of the functions in the design need to be operating concurrently. I suppose this would fall under the category of "resource re-usage".