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Taking advantage of the latest advancements in microelectronics fabrica- tion technologies, FPGA vendors are continuously looking for new features to be included in their devices, aiming at making them suitable for wider application areas. In some cases, they are just extensions or improvements to previously available resources, whereas in other cases, architectures are extended with new resources aimed at mitigating traditional limitations (e.g., for interfacing with analog signals or for efficient computation of floating-point operations) or at improving performance (e.g., regarding memory controllers or serial communication interfaces).
Thanks to all these advancements, FPGAs cannot be considered just configurable hardware devices anymore, but they have to be approached with the FPSoC design paradigm in mind. Although in the authors’ opin- ion there is still much room for improvements, vendors and third parties have also to be acknowledged for their continuous efforts in improving design tools, particularly considering the high-level approach required by FPSoCs, as well as the need for making the technology readily accessible to application engineers, who, in their vast majority, are not hardware designers.
The advantages of FPSoCs have hopefully been shown throughout this book to be many and significant. This is particularly important to realize for designers working in specific applications, who are (obviously) mainly focused on the details of their target applications rather than on implemen- tation details, so they tend to keep basing their designs on the same devices they are used to working with. A similar situation occurred when digital control of power converters became a—very advantageous—practical pos- sibility, but most designers continued to use for years the analog solutions they were familiar with and knew how to tune for their purposes. The cur- rent challenge for designers in the FPSoC area is to have enough knowledge in both the hardware and software domains, their integration, and the parti- tioning of tasks between them.
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