Recent Trends and Improvisations in FPGA
M. Joy Daniel, K. Siva Kumar M.E. · IOSR Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering · 2017
With the improvements of VLSI design in FPGA, the application areas got wider.The FPGAs architectural developments afford FPGA developers to produce effective devices day-by-day.Today these applications wider from commercial-applications to cloud server, artificial intelligence, defense, medical, etc.In this paper, the various and recent trends and improvements of FPGA are produced.By System-on-chip development by using FPGA made easy the advancements in optical interconnects, hardware accelerators and controllers.The developers promote FPGA in photonics network and new architectures to provide speed and user defined specifications.FPGA and ASIC plays an important role in the advancements in IoT.The size of FPGAs is evolutionally breaking down by fuelling reprogrammable from 45nm to 8nm.This paper also revealed some features in cloud computing using wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), optical network and silicon photonics.