EE385B: Richard Vireday; Intel CPLD/FPGA Architectures, Applications & Trends

EE385B: Reconfigurable Architectures and Applications

                        Date: Wednesday, May 18
               Usual Time and Place: 12:15 to 2 pm, ERL 401
                 
               Speaker: Richard Vireday, Intel Corporation

       Title: Intel CPLD/FPGA Architectures, Applications and Trends

Abstract:
    The focus of this talk will be on the several unique applications
that have been seen for Intel FPGA devices.  We will review these
customer applications, and then discuss the market directions and future
requirements that Intel sees as a supplier of FPGAs.
    FPGA devices are changing the economics of product lifecycles, from
design to final destiny on the junkyard.  In this talk we will use the
actual customer designs to go over the needs for Dynamic Reconfiguration,
Low Power, High Performance and Ease-of-Use in FPGAs.   Designs for PCI,
Video, Telecom and other high-speed applications will be outlined.
    Finally, an overview of the new text "FPGA Workbook: Beginning
Experiments with Intel FLEXLogic FPGAs" will be given.  From their use
in classrooms to teach logic design, FPGAs are now helping to schools to
easily and cheaply reinvigorate studies of computer architecture.  They
have become the new vehicle to build and test new ideas and architectures.