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I'm sorry... IP? LUT? EDIT: Thanks for the explanations, guys!

• mastax 11y ago
  IP = Intellectual Property LUT = Look-Up Table LUTs are the building blocks of FPGAs.
• jwise0 11y ago
  For some reason, in the hardware design world, we use "IP" to mean "a self-contained functional block of hardware that we have developed". It probably derives from 'intellectual property' (i.e., 'we bought some IP from $VENDOR to handle HDMI', and then eventually 'we bought an IP from $VENDOR to handle HDMI'). A LUT is, more or less, the smallest logical element on an FPGA (a piece of programmable hardware) -- it's a Look-Up Table. They're not directly comparable from FPGA to FPGA, because some FPGAs have different sizes; in the early days, LUTs had 3 inputs and produced one output, but on modern FPGAs, 'LUT4's (4 input, 1 output) are the smallest that you'll reasonably get, and some FPGAs even use 'LUT6's (6 input, 1 output; sometimes divisible into 5 input, 2 output, or other subdivisions) as their basic logic element. But no matter how you slice it, 308 LUTs is impressively small, especially for 180MHz.
• chetjan 11y ago
  IP -> Intellectual Property, LUT -> Look Up Table. IP is often used by Intel to describe a "unit" of propriety technology, such a chip or just a adder design. Look up tables are in essence ROM that is the basis for how FPGAs work.
• jloughry 11y ago
  CPLD = Complex Programmable Logic Device A chip half-way between a PAL (think of a dozen or so gates in a small package, you could choose how they were hooked up; it was fast and it was small) and an FPGA (relatively huge and expensive). Both programmable, but PALs usually only once.