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High Speed Digital Design Services
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Founded in 1985 by one of the original Xilinx Field Application Engineers,
the continuing mission of Bottom Line Technologies Inc (BLT) is to offer our Clients
premium quality design services on aggressive schedules at an competitive price.
For any digital technology of the last 3 decades, "high speed " has usually referred to designing at close to the limit of a technology’s performance capability. Doing this job well involves rigorous timing analysis along with creative architecture design. In recent years, however, FPGA vendors, and to a lesser extent, ASIC vendors have begun to address speed bottlenecks with special features built into the device. Examples include on-chip block RAM, ROM, special-purpose interconnect, special purpose clock logic and clock routing, specialized IO circuitry, on-chip processor macros, and support for multiple IO standards. Using these features appropriately adds both more performance and more intelligent effort.
BLT considers the following issues for every design, but they are especially important where high performance in an FPGA or ASIC is imperative:
- Employ synchronous design wherever possible.
- Define multiple clock domains and interface between them correctly.
- Evaluate candidate devices and pick the one appropriate to the task.
- Identify high-speed areas of the design, which typically are a subset of the whole.
- Allow adequate device resources, including routing, clock & memory resources.
- Match critical device resources to the most demanding areas of the design.
- Keep cost, schedule, and utilization tradeoffs in mind.
- Establish timing constraints to constrain and verify timing of the entire device.
- Consider early implementation and timing analysis for difficult parts of the design.
- Be cognizant of the target clock rate(s) and “budget” the amount of combinatorial logic between register stages.
- Analyze each interface to every external device and carefully choose IO architectures and signaling standards.
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