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This paper presents a case study targeting the Aptix MP4 board and Xilinx VirtexE FPGAs, for digital TV application prototyping. The difficult FPGA prototyping issues typically encountered by engineers are illustrated on a big industrial example. Due to the increasing ASIC complexity, the basic challenge was to meet the project deadlines. To enable faster FPGA-based prototyping, both the ASIC design practices and the FPGA design tools should be adjusted. The study has led to a number of guidelines for design teams to make designs prototyping friendly and a number of points for the improvement of the FPGA tools.
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Krupnova, H., Meurou, V., Barnichon, C., Serra, C., Morsi, F. (2002). How Fast Is Rapid FPGA-based Prototyping: Lessons and Challenges from the Digital TV Design Prototyping Project. In: Glesner, M., Zipf, P., Renovell, M. (eds) Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: Reconfigurable Computing Is Going Mainstream. FPL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46117-5_5
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