FPGA Development

FPGA development is an increasingly significant part of today’s electronics design landscape. Modern FPGAs can now support highly complex sub-systems with consequential challenges such as integrating multi-source IP and robustly interfacing this to the host equipment.

With experience of Xilinx and Altera FPGAs, Systems4Silicon provides a complete service in FPGA design, from device selection, pin out design, clock domain partitioning to RTL coding, simulation, timing closure and test. Our engineers understand the importance of correct timing constraint design and have experience of working with high speed, resource limited designs. Particular skills include the design of high speed interfaces, clock domain crossing, and converting digital signal processing functionality from floating-point models to fixed-point implementations.

Systems4Silicon's DPD IP is a good example of the kind of sub-system that may find its way into today's FPGA designs. Making use of embedded microprocessor (e.g. Nios II) and on-chip bus technology it illustrates some of Systems4Silicon's core FPGA design capabilities.