Question

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?

Austerity should be 7 to 8 lines

Answer 1

FPGA is an abbreviation for Field Programmable Gate Array while ASICS is an abbreviation of Application Specific Integrated Circuit. By considering the parameters like speed budget and power consumption, I will prefer FPGA as it has short design cycle. FPGA also has a development kit that helps while prototyping. Using FPGA all the required parameters will be provided in satisfied way.

However if one fails while using FPGA the he/she could move towards ASICS.

ASICS on the other hand has following factors:

• less power consumption
• less area
• more speed

ASICS is preferred when one needs larger volume as ASICS has longer design and prototyping cycles.

I hope it will help you!