Recent directions in netlist partitioning: a survey
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Partitioning of VLSI circuits and systems
DAC '96 Proceedings of the 33rd annual Design Automation Conference
The Transmogrifier-2: a 1 million gate rapid prototyping system
FPGA '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM fifth international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays
FPGA-Based Emulation: Industrial and Custom Prototyping Solutions
FPL '00 Proceedings of the The Roadmap to Reconfigurable Computing, 10th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications
FPGA Technology Snapshot: Current Devices and Design Tools
RSP '00 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP 2000)
Logic emulation with virtual wires
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
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This paper presents a case study targeting the Aptix MP4 board and Xilinx VirtexE FPGAs, for digital TV application prototyping. The difficult FPGA prototyping issues typically encountered by engineers are illustrated on a big industrial example. Due to the increasing ASIC complexity, the basic challenge was to meet the project deadlines. To enable faster FPGA-based prototyping, both the ASIC design practices and the FPGA design tools should be adjusted. The study has led to a number of guidelines for design teams to make designs prototyping friendly and a number of points for the improvement of the FPGA tools.