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Comment on FPGAs - Modern Day Systems On Chips (SoCs) by Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:23:57 +0000

Embedded System Design magazine has a great market summary on page 15 of the September issue titled annual study uncovers the embedded market. Page 5 of the study further reviews the percentage of time in each stage of development (figure 13) and the use of embedded processors inside FPGAs (figure 15). The conclusion is that 32 % of projects have embedded processors in FPGAs in 2007, more or less in line with this post. Additionally, the study stated that 25% of the project time is spent in testing and debug. Each are areas where GateRocket can be a critical enabler.

Comment on Design Automation Conference wakes up to FPGAs by Chris

Chris — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:54:08 +0000

I remember 10 years ago hearing a CEO of one of the big FPGA companies say that they were going to, “eat the ASIC market for lunch”. Being very ASIC focused at the time, I dismissed it as propaganda. Whoops! FPGAs now dominate the custom hardware design space over ASICs by a wide margin. Ten points for the FPGA guys seeing the future, taking a bold position and following through.

Comment on Designers March Toward FPGAs by Dave

Dave — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:11:16 +0000

Another article in EETimes by Mark LaPedus titled IBM aims to revive ASIC with next-gen spin, further makes the point of the continued capture of the chip design starts by FPGAs. By 2008, ASIC design starts will be down to 3048, FPGAs have 31 times the number of design starts in 2008 (according to Gartner).

With all of this said, there will always be applications for custom chips, cell phones are a good example, but the majority of the market has moved to FPGAs and with the 65nm devices from the FPGA vendors, there are more to come.

Comment on GateRocket Introduces RocketDrive - Device Native Verification for FPGAs by Dave

Dave — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:50:23 +0000

The electronics industry trade press has comprehensively covered the GateRocket RocketDrive product launch. For your convenience, here are links to the coverage we know about:

1) Richard Goering of EE Times covered the launch in both the on-line and printed version of the magazine with the headline FPGA tool startup 'rockets' for success 2) Michael Santarini of EDN used the caption start-up GateRocket brings hardware-based accelerator to FPGA designers 3) Clive Maxfield had the PLD Design Line said GateRocket introduces ‘Device Native’ verification for advanced FPGAs 4) Jack Horgan has an detailed interview 5) Peggy Aycinena included the news on page 8 of her DATE coverage 6) Additional coverage was received by: EDA Café, SoC Central, Embedded Star, EETimes Asia, DSP-FPGA.com, Design & Reuse, Yahoo EDA News, FPGA Journal, Chip Design Magazine, and CBS MarketWatch