CHAPTER 3
INTRODUCTION TO FPGA ARCHITECTURE
This chapter is intended to provide an introduction to field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architecture from the systems engineer's rather than the very-large-scale integration (VLSI) designer's point of view. After reading this chapter you should have an understanding of the main FPGA families and be able to make an informed choice of a suitable FPGA for a particular application. The following topics are covered:
- Background to the FPGA concept
- The main classes of FPGA devices
- Important components of FPGA architectures
- Programming technologies
- Techniques for benchmarking FPGA architectures
- A brief history and bibliography of the development of FPGAs
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