- Circuits and Architectures for Low-Power FPGAs
2018
The programmability of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) allows them
to implement any digital circuit, bringing a myriad of benefits to the user.
FPGAs offer shorter time to market, lower per-unit cost (versus ASICs) in
moderate volumes, and reconfigurability-easing testing and debug, and enabling the use of FPGAs in custom-computing applications. Unfortunately,
programmability does not come for “free.” It it is associated with overhead
such that an FPGA implementation of a given circuit consumes more power,
area, and is slower than a custom ASIC implementation. Our focus in this
chapter is FPGA power, which has been shown to be 7-14× higher than an
equivalent ASIC implementation [1]. The high power consumption of FPGAs
has, with a few recent exceptions, largely excluded them from use in one of the
most exciting technology trends affecting society in recent years-the mobile
computing revolution.
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