10 FPGA Design Techniques You Should Know

Adam Taylor, Head of Engineering Systems at E2V
7/14/2016 07:00 AM EDT -- EETimes

Regardless of whether you are using VHDL, System Verilog, or a different design capture language, there are a number of universal design techniques with which FPGA engineers should be familiar, from the very simple to the most advanced.

In this column we'll take a look at 10 I believe to be important and discuss why I feel this way.

Index

• Introduction
• State Machine Design
• Basics of FPGA Math
• First In, First Out (FIFO) Buffers
• The CORDIC Algorithm
• Metastability Protection
• Discrete & Fast Fourier Transforms
• Polynomial Approximation
• Infinite Impulse Response Filters
• Finite Impulse Response Filters
• Image Processing Filters