FPGA Design (PDF)

FPGA Design: Best Practices for Team-based Design

Philip Simpson

Many Companies struggle with establishing a working FPGA design methodology across
design teams in their Company. As design teams become more dispersed globally, the
need increases for a standard design methodology. This book describes best practices for
successful FPGA design. It is the result of the author's meetings with hundreds of
customers on the challenges facing each of their FPGA design teams. By gaining an
understanding into their design environments, processes, what works and what does not
work, key areas of concern in implementing system designs have been identified and a
recommended design methodology to overcome these challenges has been developed.
This book's content has a strong focus on design teams that are spread across sites. The
goal being to increase the productivity of FPGA design teams by establishing a common
methodology across design teams; enabling the exchange of design blocks across teams.
Coverage includes the complete FPGA design flow, from the basics to advanced
techniques.

. Presents complete, field-tested methodology for FPGA design, focused on design
reuse across design teams;
. Offers best practices for FPGA timing closure, in-system debug, and board
design;
. Details techniques to resolve common pitfalls in designing with FPGAs.