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Back in 2011 I had a vision, a vision for how users of both IP and FPGA-Based Prototypes could be more productive. The problems these users faced was not to do with bugs or lack of capabilities in the products but from the fact that the usage crossed between the two products. IP users traditionally are not experienced prototypers and prototypers lacked IP specific knowledge. Of course this was not helped by the fact that the IP did not document it’s prototyping specific needs. For example, the IP is optimized for ASIC deployment and when you prototype it the clocking, reset and rams sometimes need to be modified to fit into a FPGA environment. Another issue is that as it’s ASIC IP not all configurations can be physically supported in FPGA. For example while the IP might support up to 16 IO ports on the prototype you might only be physically implement up to 4.

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