Review on the FPGA design optimization for ASIC
Xiaohaoyang Lei · Applied and Computational Engineering · 2023
FPGA is a product of further development on programmable devices such as PAL and GAL. It is not only a chip, but a design pattern. With the rapid growth in FPGA performance and density, its complete top-down model can be applied to the development of similar ASICs while improving the technology itself. This paper shows that a summary analysis of previous articles can conclude that the application of FPGA design to ASICs can lead to optimization of many aspects. Architecture-level embedding and mapping transformation are the current mainstream application methods, both of which can bring strong economic and time benefits. Meanwhile, there are various issues that need special consideration in the application process which is related to the question of whether or not to map and convert. Finally, according to the analysis, we still need to solve two important issues which are the lack of automatic mapping tools and the lack of a unified function library in the future.