This article mainly introduces Xilinx‘s FPGA, let‘s take a look!

1. What is an FPGA?

FPGAs are "all-purpose" chips for programmable redesign. FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) Field Programmable Gate Array is an integrated circuit with programmable characteristics that is pre-designed and implemented on a silicon chip. It can be configured into a specified circuit structure according to the needs of the designer, so that customers do not have to rely on the chip. ASIC chips designed and manufactured by the manufacturer.

2. What are the advantages of FPGA?

High programmability, short development cycle, and high programmability for parallel computing. Unlike ASIC‘s full-custom circuits, FPGAs are semi-custom circuits. Theoretically, if the gate circuit scale provided by FPGA is large enough, the logic function of any ASIC and DSP can be realized by programming. In addition, programming can be repeated, unlike ASIC design after curing can not be modified.

3. What are the characteristics of FPGA?

Due to the characteristics of the internal structure of FPGA, it can easily realize the distributed algorithm structure, which is very beneficial for the realization of high-speed digital signal processing. These multiply and accumulate operations can be efficiently implemented by implementing a distributed arithmetic structure through an FPGA.

4. Where are FPGA applications?

FPGA has been the darling of industrial design since its birth, especially in the fields of communication, voice, image, artificial intelligence and other fields, it has been playing an irreplaceable role. The application scenarios are relatively rich, including: ASIC prototyping, automotive, transceiver, consumer electronics, data center, high performance computing, industrial, medical, test/measurement, wired/wireless communication, etc. Among them, communications, consumer electronics and automobiles are the main application scenarios, and the market scale continues to expand.

1. Application in the field of AI

In the 5G era, the demand in the field of artificial intelligence has continued to grow rapidly and explosively. The traditional computing architecture based on CPU cannot fully meet the needs of high-performance parallel computing of artificial intelligence. FPGA is a low-power heterogeneous chip with fast development cycle and flexible programming, which is widely used in the field of AI.

2. Autonomous driving

For autonomous driving, the speed of reaction is very important, mainly using cameras, radar and lidar. And the equipment needs to be updated continuously. At this time, the advantages of FPGA are highlighted, which can be quickly updated with the algorithm.

3. 5G communication

The programmable core features coincide with the flexibility, cost-effectiveness and intelligence of 5G wireless networks. Many application scenarios of communication services need to be upgraded at any time. Compared with FPGA, ASIC is not flexible enough to keep up with the iterative update of algorithms. Therefore, FPGA is a better choice.

4. Industrial Internet of Things

The application field of FPGA in the industrial Internet focuses on five aspects: industrial network communication, machine vision, industrial robots, edge computing, and industrial cloud. These five aspects span multiple application scenarios, and each scenario has one commonality: low latency and high computing performance requirements. Based on such characteristics, FPGA will become one of the cornerstones for the development of the Industrial Internet.

5. Data Center

FPGAs have been widely used in large-scale data centers. The world‘s seven super cloud computing data centers, including Microsoft, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud, and Facebook, have adopted FPGA acceleration servers. The architectural diversity of the broad application scenarios of artificial intelligence can give full play to the advantages and characteristics of FPGAs and create a new situation for new FPGAs in data centers.

The above is a complete introduction of Xilinx‘s FPGA. Shenzhen Hao Qi Core Technology is a first-class agent of XILINX, focusing on the field of FPGA, relying on the superior channel resources of Xilinx original factory, specializing in FPGA research and development and sales, welcome to consult!