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In this chapter we have aimed to give an overview of FPGA devices and tools today from our unique prototyper’s perspective. We described the main features of FPGAs themselves with specific reference to Xilinx ® Virtex-6 family, discovering that the usefulness of each FPGA feature depends not only on its functionality but also on its support by the relevant EDA tools.
Regarding the EDA tools, we considered the need to address the so-called “three laws of prototyping” and the tools that enable us to do that, including synthesis, partitioning and place & route.
There are many more details available in our references but, now that we have a good understanding of the FPGA technologies involved, in the next chapter we shall get started in our FPGA-based prototyping project.
The authors gratefully acknowledge significant contribution to this chapter from
Joe Marceno of Synopsys, Mountain View
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