Question

VLSI is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combing thousands of transistors into a single chip. There are two kinds of widely used IC technologies. One is FPGA and other is ASIC. Budget, power consumption, and speed are the common parameters considered for the selection of these technologies. Suppose, a medium volume production of an image transformation circuit is required. As a Circuit Design team lead, which one of the two IC technologies you will select considering the above given parameters for the design of production of required transformation circuit? Support your answer with valid reasons in either case.

Answer 1

The process of choosing IC technology depends upon some factors that are as follows:

• Size of Image
• Size of Database
• Transformation method complexity
• Task after Transformation step

So, by considering the given scenario, first one will be chose that is FPGA.

FPGA stands for Field Programmable Gate Array. It is preferred because it has short design cycle. Moreover while prototyping in FPGA, development kits are present which add a lot to help.

A satisfied amount of speed, power consumption and area requirements are provided by Field Programmable Gate Array FPGA.

I hope it will help you!