FPGA Routing Techniques. Routing technique used in an FPGA largely decides the amount of area used by wire segments and programmable switches as compared to area consumed by logic blocks. A wire segment can be described as two end points of an interconnect with no programmable switch between them.
Route layout design is guided by passenger flows: routes are established to provide direct or indirect connection between locations and areas that generate and attract demand for transit travel, such as residential and activity related centers (Levinson 1992).
What is a GDS file? Integrated Circuit (IC) design created by various CAD programs; contains information about the layout of a circuit, including the layers, geometric shapes, and text labels; used as a standard interchange format between IC design applications.
Physical design process is often referred as PnR (Place and Route) / APR (Automatic Place & Route). Main steps in physical design are placement of all logical cells, clock tree synthesis & routing. During this process of physical design timing, power, design & technology constraints have to be met.
GDSII stream format, common acronym GDSII, is a database file format which is the de facto industry standard for data exchange of integrated circuit or IC layout artwork. It is a binary file format representing planar geometric shapes, text labels, and other information about the layout in hierarchical form.
Editions. The Subscription Edition is the licensed version of Xilinx ISE, and a free trial version is available for download. The Web Edition is the free version of Xilinx ISE, that can be downloaded and used for no charge. It provides synthesis and programming for a limited number of Xilinx devices.
Specific application of an FPGA includes digital signal processing, bioinformatics, device controllers, software-defined radio, random logic, ASIC prototyping, medical imaging, computer hardware emulation, integrating multiple SPLDs, voice recognition, cryptography, filtering and communication encoding and many more.
A VHDL program can be considered as a description of a digital system; the associated simulator will use this description to produce behavior that will mimic that of the physical system. Xilinx ISE means Xilinx® Integrated Software Environment (ISE).
More Common FPGA Applications are: Aerospace and Defense, Medical Electronics, ASIC Prototyping, Audio, Automotive, Broadcast, Consumer Electronics, Distributed Monetary Systems, Data Center, High Performance Computing, Industrial, Medical, Scientific Instruments, Security systems, Video & Image Processing, Wired
Free and open-source simulators
| Simulator name | License | Author/company |
|---|
| GPL Cver | GPL | Pragmatic C Software |
| Icarus Verilog | GPL2+ | Stephen Williams |
| LIFTING | | A. Bosio, G. Di Natale (LIRMM) |
| OSS CVC | Perl style artistic license | Tachyon Design Automation |
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VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language used in electronic design automation to describe digital and mixed-signal systems such as field-programmable gate arrays and integrated circuits. VHDL can also be used as a general purpose parallel programming language.
VHSIC Hardware Description Language