Chapter 6 - Who Are All the Players?

Abstract

This chapter provides a list of key configure field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and electronic design automation (EDA) vendors associated with FPGAs or related products. Several companies including Actel, Alera, Anadigm, and QuickLogic Corp., are specialize in providing FPGA Internet Protocol (IP) cores to be employed as part of standard cell application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) or structured ASIC designs. The full-line EDA vendors who supply complete solutions that include OEM’d point tools from the specialist EDA vendors are Altium Ltd., Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics Corp., and Synopsys Incorporation. In the context of FPGAs, however, Altium supplies a complete hardware and software codesign environment for system-on-FPGA development. This includes design entry, simulation, synthesis, compilation/assembly, and comprehensive debugging facilities along with an associated multi-FPGA vendor-capable development board. Besides these companies, there are a lot of small design houses specializing in FPGA designs such as Dillon Engineering Inc., and Launchbird Inc.