November 30, 2006

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Advanced Verification Drives Home Advanced FPGAs

The complexity and size of FPGA designs are or soon will be the same as that of ASICs. High-end FPGAs have become incredibly capable as they add new features, including embedded processing applications, high-performance DSP design, and system-level design. In these new areas, FPGA designers are not competing against other PLD products, but against alternative solutions, such as ASICs and ASSPs. Customers are rapidly adopting FPGAs in these areas as the "platform of choice" to align with ever changing standards and customer requirements as well as skyrocketing ASIC development costs.

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