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I'd be amazed if that were still possible, in fact. Real-world FPGA designs lean heavily on the vendor's proprietary IP, which won't port straight across to AS
by CamperBob2 1y ago
I'd be amazed if that were still possible, in fact. Real-world FPGA designs lean heavily on the vendor's proprietary IP, which won't port straight across to ASICs any more than the LUT-based FPGA fabric will.
Anyone who claims to turn a modern FPGA design into an ASIC "automatically" is selling snake oil.
- duskwuff 1y agoOh, these programs were always in-house. The offering was essentially "if you pay an up-front fee and give us your FPGA design, we'll sell you some chips that run that design for cheaper than the FPGAs". If there was ever any custom silicon involved - which there may have been for Altera, but probably not for Xilinx - the design files for it were never made available to the customer.
- esseph 1y agoIt is very possible and many vendors are still doing this. One of them was fairly recently acquired by Cisco.
- CamperBob2 1y agoAutomatic, without substantial NRE as well as active cooperation from brand X or brand A? BS.
- esseph 1y agoDid you reply to the wrong message?
- CamperBob2 1y agoNo. Did you?
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- esseph 1y agoI did! :-)
- 15155 1y ago> Real-world FPGA designs lean heavily on the vendor's proprietary IP No, not always - I use no vendor IP whatsoever for extremely large designs. For ASICs is basically required to use fab IP (for physical production/electrical/verification reasons,) but that's absolutely not the case for FPGAs.