Advantages of using CPLDs/FPGAs
Using of CPLDs
The integration of standard logic ICs (74xx) in a FPGA processor decreases the necessary circuit board area and simplifies the layout and save board layers therefore reducing your total system cost.
Using of FPGAs
- Flexible by the use of reprogrammable logic blocks and free definable inputs and outputs.
- Extremly fast at intensive calculations by the use of parallel processing (up to 600 Tera MAC/s), whereas the processing speed and area consumption adapted to the actual problem.
- Fast development of designs with comfortable software tools shortens time-to-market.
- Many additional components can be integrated in the FPGA.
Therefore printed circuit boards can drastic reduced in size and number of layers. - Application of completed Soft-IP-Cores for implementation of logic functions (CPU, I/O, RAM control, filters, ...).
