FPGA EDA Design Principles and Implementation

This book focuses on FPGA EDA tools, the very foundation of FPGA technology. Instead of illustrating how to use them, this book dives into the tools themselves, revealing how these tools are being designed and how they may improve. Unlike other semiconductors, FPGA has a distinctive two-stage EDA system: chip design EDA and application design EDA.State-of-the-art algorithms, data models and design methodologies/standards are the main concerns of this book, and these will be very helpful for FPGA EDA engineers and researchers to obtain a bird’s eye view of this complicated knowledge system. In the chip design EDA part, full-custom and semicustom methodologies bring up ASIC-like EDA tools, and in the application design EDA side, typical topics including high-level synthesis, logic synthesis, physical implementation, bitstream configuration, etc., are well discussed.

Introduction.- Device(Chip Design) Modelling.- Design(Application Design) Modelling.- Power Analysis.- Performance(Timing) Analysis.- Area Analysis.- Semi-custom EDA.-  High-Level Synthesis.- Logic Synthesis.- Physical Implementation.- Bitstream Configuration.-  Summary and Outlook.

Kaihui Tu, MSc in Communications, University of York, York, UK. PhD in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Tu has participated in numbers of Chinese national research projects, including China’s first 10K logic cell FPGA project, first embedded FPGA IP project and first TSV-based 3D FPGA project. With over ten years’ working experience in Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tu was responsible for architecting the eFPGA IP EDA tools that had won the “Made in China research IP Prize” at IP SoC China 2019.Yu’s major academic honor includes: ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2023) Best Paper Award • American Physics Society LPR Poster Honorable Mention (2022) • NSF CAREER Award (2021) • 2017 ASP-DAC Best Paper Nomination • ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination (by UMass Amherst) • DAC 2017 Security Contest - 1st Place.