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BDTI unveils FPGA C-synthesis certification: Can C beat RTL?Practical Chip Design - Brian BaileyJan. 19, 2010 |
With the appearance of higher speeds and more DSP macrocells in low-cost FPGAs, more and more design teams are seeing the configurable chips not as glue, but as a way to accelerate the inner loops of numerical algorithms, either in conjunction with or in place of the traditional DSP chip. It's well understood that encoding critical kernels in an FPGA can increase performance by more than an order of magnitude compare to even the fastest DSP chip, often reducing energy consumption as well.