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When You Switch from ASIC to FPGA Design, or Vice Versa

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Some design engineers have spent the best years of their young lives developing a seemingly endless series of ASICs, while others have languished in their  cubicles learning the arcane secrets that are the province of the FPGA maestro.  The problem arises when an engineer steeped in one of these implementation  technologies is suddenly thrust into the antipodal domain. For example, a common scenario these days is for engineers who bask in the knowledge that they  know everything there is to know about ASICs to be suddenly tasked with creating a design targeted toward an FPGA implementation.   

This is a tricky topic because there are so many facets to it; the best we can  hope for here is to provide an overview as to some of the more significant differences between ASIC and FPGA design styles.




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