FPGAs: World Class Designs

Chapter 1. Alternative FPGA Architectures

This chapter is taken from my own book, The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs (Devices, Tools, and Flows), ISBN: 9780750676045. Actually, despite its title, I think it's only fair to warn you that the Design Warrior's Guide doesn't actually teach you how to implement designs using FPGAs; instead, it provides a detailed introduction to a wide range of generic concepts, such as what FPGAs are, how they work, how you program (configure) them, different design flows for various styles of design (schematic-based, HDL-based, C/C++-based, DSP-based, embedded processor-based, etc.).Now, it may seem a little immodest for me to select a chapter from one of my own works as the opening topic in this book, but there ...