During the past few years of tech sector economic decline,which has touched the EDA/semiconductor industries, two companies have had consistent double digit growth. They are Xilinx and Altera. Their business is FPGA design. Advances in FPGA technologies have made FPGA design a low cost alternative to very expensive unreconfigurable ASIC design.
Author Bio
David Pellerin is president and founder of Impulse Accelerated Technologies, a firm that serves systems designers who want to use FPGAs for hardware-based software acceleration and fast prototyping of mixed hardware/software systems. His Prentice Hall PTR books include VHDL Made Easy, Practical Design Using Programmable Logic,Digital Design Using ABEL, and Electronic Design Automation for Windows. Scott Thibault is president and founder of Green Mountain Computing Systems, developers of custom and OEM software that leverages advanced HDL and C-to-RTL expertise to improve time-to-market. Dr. Thibault holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rennes.
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