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FPGA ( Field programmable gate array )

FPGA ( Field programmable gate array ). April 2008 Prepared by : Muhammad Ziyada Muhammad Al tabakh. Contents. Hardware engineers vs software developers FPGA Market History of FPGA Modern developments Architecture Design and programming.

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FPGA ( Field programmable gate array )

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  1. FPGA ( Field programmable gate array ) April 2008 • Prepared by : Muhammad Ziyada Muhammad Al tabakh

  2. Contents • Hardware engineers vs software developers • FPGA Market • History of FPGA • Modern developments • Architecture • Design and programming

  3. Hardware designers vs software developers • The hardware engineers roll up their sleeves and work for months without a break • software programmers would sit back and relax, or play ping-pong, until the hardware was stable. • the hardware design would quickly become a hardware redesign for some perceived deficiency or new feature request

  4. VHDL solution • In the early days, circuits as gate-level schematics. • saved by (HDLs). • allowed us to describe the functionality • Allowed design to be quickly and easily represented and simulated

  5. VHDL • VHSIC hardware description language • developed at the behest of the US Department of Defense • alternative to huge, complex manuals which were subject to implementation-specific details • logic simulators were developed to read the VHDL files • logic synthesis tools that read the VHDL

  6. FPGA market • FPGA Market Will Reach $2.75 Billion by Decade’s End

  7. FPGA market • January 2008 • Celoxica Holdings has agreed the $3m sale of its electronic system level (ESL) business to US firm Catalytic. • With this move, we can synthesize the top two languages for high-level algorithm development — C and MATLAB — and deliver both software and hardware implementations

  8. FPGA market • Aerospace & Defense • Automotive • Broadcast Consumer • Data Processing and Storage • Industrial / Scientific / Medical • Wired Communications • Wireless Communications

  9. FPGA market

  10. Brief history • the invention of the very first computers in the 1940's and 1950's • A Xilinx co-founder, Ross Freeman, invented the field programmable gate array in 1984 • FPGA come after many earlier devices

  11. Modern development • Configurable Logic Blocks Registers (flip flops) for fast data storage . Logic Routing • Input/Output Blocks Basic pin logic (flip flops, muxs, etc) • Block Ram Internal memory for data storage • Digital Clock Managers Clock distribution • Programmable Routing Matrix

  12. "Pros" and "Cons" • Pros Low power consumption; ideal for portable electronics devices. Upgradeable using software, instead of extensive hardware replacement . Low cost of overhead . Sometimes replaces as many as twenty traditional PALs. Parallel computing possibilities.

  13. "Pros" and "Cons" • Cons High cost of fabricating a completely new chip Size constraints / limitations More difficult to code & debug Many applications still are, and may remain, in the theoretical phase

  14. FPGA vs classical architecture • Classical operation Fetch an instruction Fetch a piece of data Fetch another piece of data Perform an operation Store the result : Do the same thing all over again

  15. FPGA vs classical architecture • y = (a * b) + (c * d) + (e * f) + (g * h); • the multiplications are performed in parallel without the need to fetch and decode the instructions. This results in orders-of-magnitude speed improvement.

  16. 80’s 90’s Now FPGA vs conventional circuit

  17. The rise of FPGA • The first devices were primitive diode matrices used in TV channel selectors, HAM radio tuners, emerging defense and space applications. • replaced by more capable logic devices based on arrays of combinatorial gates • dramatic change in reprogram ability, more flexible interconnect architectures.

  18. The rise of FPGA • Programmable Logic Arrays (PLA)

  19. The rise of FPGA • Programmable Array Logic (PAL)

  20. The rise of FPGA • Complex PLDs (CPLDs)

  21. The rise of FPGA • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

  22. Main vendors • Xilinx spartan and vertix series ise webback software • Altera cyclon series Quartus software • Mentor Graphic FPGAdv software

  23. FPGA design skip

  24. FPGA design

  25. FPGA programming Languages HDL languages ( VHDL and VERILOG ) Truth table Block diagram Schematic diagram Flowchart State machine And more

  26. VHDL code LIBRARY ieee ; USE ieee.std_logic_1164.all ; ENTITY mux2to1 IS PORT ( w0, w1, s : IN STD_LOGIC ; f : OUT STD_LOGIC ) ; END mux2to1 ; ARCHITECTURE Behavior OF mux2to1 IS BEGIN PROCESS ( w0, w1, s ) BEGIN IF s = '0' THEN f <= w0 ; ELSE f <= w1 ; END IF ; END PROCESS ; END Behavior ;;

  27. Soft cores • MicroBlaze,PowerPC,Nios,… soft processor • create complete systems composed of, for example, an 8- or 16-bit controller, a UART, and other such I/O devices on a single programmable chip

  28. Soft processor

  29. References • Practical FPGA Programming in C By David Pellerin, Scott Thibault • Ece230 vhdl lectures ByKhurram Waheed • VHDL cookbook By peter j.ashenden

  30. Thank you Muhammad ziyada modeonz007@yahoo.com +20113246609 Muhammad al tabakh nooo_impossible@yahoo.com +20121539035

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