Summary

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Summary

• Remaining Challenges
• The Future
• Messages to Take Home

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Programmable is the Way to Go!

• Xilinx FPGAs provide the best complex-system
  solution
• they are vastly superior to ASICs
• custom-logic advantages in a standard product
• potential for dynamic reprogrammability
• they reduce time-to-market and risk
• configurable after board manufacture
• upgradable and fixable in the field
• Xilinx CPLDs offer similar benefits
• ISP technology reduces time-to-market and risk
• Xilinx CPLDs are programmable and reprogrammable
  on the board

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Remaining Challenges

• Managing fast signals on the PC-board
• use low-swing interface standards
• lower dielectric-constant PC-boards
• on-chip clock doubling
• system-on-a-chip
• Power limitations
• lower supply voltages
• lower dielectric constant on the chip
• careful clock manipulation
• Managing design efficiency
• re-usable cores and other libraries
• team-based design

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The Future

• IC density and speed will increase at least for
  another decade Moores Law
• Xilinx is at the forefront of 0.18µ technology
• Programmable logic benefits directly from
  improved technology
• like memories and microprocessors
• ASICs do not benefit in the same way
• Seamless integration of desktop and internet for
  design and support
• New-end product opportunities using Internet
  Reconfigurable Logic (IRL)

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Three Messages to Take Home

• Xilinx offers low-cost, easy-to-use solutions
• You need not be rich or a genius to use our
  programmable logic
• Xilinx devices allow 100 MHz system clock rates
• You can achieve reliable and predictable
  performance automatically
• Xilinx offers design methodologies for
  system-level integration
• You can create large FPGA designs without having
  to re-invent the wheel

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Xilinx is Programmable Logic
Programmableis the way to go!

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