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The FPGA vendor provided soft cores have about the same amount of engineering rigor as a hard core. I'm not sure what you mean by engineering rigor, but there
by gricardo99 5y ago
The FPGA vendor provided soft cores have about the same amount of engineering rigor as a hard core.
I'm not sure what you mean by engineering rigor, but there is indeed plenty of engineering to get from a soft core to a hard core, let alone a fabricated, working chip: synthesis, layout, place and route, timing closure, pads, PLL/DLL, clock tree insertion, BIST, thermal, packaging, etc...
- monocasa 5y agoHigh end soft cores do most of that. Particularly when you consider that most of what isn't automated these days is equally applicable to soft cores that aren't just Verilog or VHDl. Floor planning FPGA cores these days can be nutty compared to the recent past (far past interestingly enough was similar before you had higher level tools). And the fact that stuff like packaging, DLLs/PLLs are equally applicable to hard cores. That's outside of what they care about on nearly every core design I've seen (albeit I'm only in my mid 30s).