System ACE Configuration Solution for Xilinx FPGAs
Gary Knipper · 2007
Design techniques for electronic systems are constantly changing. In industries at the heart of the digital revolution, this change is especially acute. Functional integration, dramatic increases in complexity, new standards and protocols, cost constraints, and increased time-to-market pressures have bolstered both the design challenges and the opportunities to develop modern electronic systems. One trend driving these changes is the increased integration of core logic with previously discrete functions to achieve higher performance and more compact board designs. Traditionally, ASICs have been the vehicle for such integration but now, with their advanced system capabilities, programmable logic devices (PLDs), especially field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), have begun to take on this role in system design.