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ASICs, FPGAs’ competition
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) implement logic directly
making more efficient use of silicon.
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ASICs have very large non-recurring initial costs.
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ASICs per unit cost in volume is lower that that of FPGAs.
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The cross over point where FPGAs cost less than ASICS is about
100k to 200k units and is continually increasing.
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The time-to-market for FPGA designs is usually less than with ASICs.
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A FPGA can be configured in-situ in a customer’s unit. This allows
correcting design deficiencies and use of non-finalized standards.
EECS 452 – Fall 2014 Lecture 5 – Page 18/143 Tuesday – September 16, 2014