文档介绍：FPGA designer’s
QuickStart guide
Summary This guide gives an overview of using the DXP-based
environment to develop an FPGA design. Once you have
Guide read this document, refer to the linked documents for a
GU0101 () January 26, 2004 detailed description of that area of the design process.
Over the last 50 years the electronics engineer has had a rapidly changing palette to work with. The
introduction of the transistor in 1947 heralded the arrival of solid-state electronics, fostering the
development of binary – or digital electronics. With the implementation of multiple transistors on a
single piece of silicon in 1959 the integrated circuit (IC) was born. With it came the application of
Boolean logic – a form of algebra where all values are reduced to true or false – giving rise to the
computer age.
The spread puters throughout the developed world, and the rapid improvements in IC
development capabilities saw more and more transistors being squeezed onto an IC. The result of this
has been more and more powerful devices, identified by the term large scale integration, or LSI
circuits. This process has continued in harmony with the introduction of puter interface
standards. Bringing together LSI fabrication capabilities with these defined standards has resulted in
the development of powerful, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) working,
communications, image processing, computer bus management, and so on.
Typically ponents bined with microprocessors and other logic to form sophisticated
electronic products, capable of performing an incredible variety of tasks – each solving some problem
that the engineer set out to resolve.
Along with the growth in the size and functionality of application-specific ICs, there has been a
corresponding growth in the size and capabilities of programmable logic. Larger programmable devices
typically have their functionality arranged as an array of general purpose l