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Kevin Morris
Editor - FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal

You just left the tape-out party for your latest ASIC project - commemorative coffee-mug in-hand, when you decide to stop by your office to check your e-mail one last time before the weekend: 2 chances to refinance your house, 3 ways to lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks, 4 chances to make money while you sleep, and an ominous note from your project manager: The next version is to be done in an FPGA!

With FPGAs offering more and more capability and capacity, an increasing number of projects previously done in ASIC are being started, prototyped, even taken to production in programmable logic. What does this mean to you as an ASIC designer? How do the capabilities of programmable logic compare to those of ASIC? How does the design approach differ? How familiar will the design tools and techniques seem when migrating from an ASIC design environment?

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