difference between FPGA and ucontroller

[swapnil_vlsi]

difference between fpga and microcontroller

Are FPGAs and microcontrollers the same thing?

can we replace microcontroller by CPLD???

 

[vamsi_addagada]

difference between microcontroller and fpga

both are not same
controller is write programing one time
in FPGA it is reprogramble.u r written logic many time
controller and CPLDS both are different
in cpld is contains small logic

vamsi

 

[nxtech]

difference between microcontrollers and fpga

The previous repsonse is partially correct.

The main differences between a microcontroller and a FPGA or CPLD is that a microcontroller has features built in that do not appear in either an FPGA or CPLD. An example is an A/D or D/A (although Actel does have a FPGA with some analog stuff), comparitors, LCD drivers, etc.

Also there are micros that can be reprogrammed on the fly via FLASH memory much like a FPGA or CPLD.

The biggest difference is that the microcontroller is a software based solution while the FPGA or CPLD are a hardware based solution.

Depending on what you are doing one may be a better choice than the other but in reality you can use what ever you want to get the job done.

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[barath_87]

comparison between fpga and microcontroller

FPGA's are programmable devices that can be used to implement your digital logic..... For the matter any digital logic .....

You can even implement a µcontroller using FPGA's.... You can even implement the same architecture on your FPGA board...

 

[vakhariajignesh]

difference between fpga microcontroller

The previous repsonse is partially correct.

The main differences between a microcontroller and a FPGA or CPLD is that a microcontroller has features built in that do not appear in either an FPGA or CPLD. An example is an A/D or D/A (although Actel does have a FPGA with some analog stuff), comparitors, LCD drivers, etc.

Also there are micros that can be reprogrammed on the fly via FLASH memory much like a FPGA or CPLD.

The biggest difference is that the microcontroller is a software based solution while the FPGA or CPLD are a hardware based solution.

Depending on what you are doing one may be a better choice than the other but in reality you can use what ever you want to get the job done.

E

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The previous repsonse is partially correct.

The main differences between a microcontroller and a FPGA or CPLD is that a microcontroller has features built in that do not appear in either an FPGA or CPLD. An example is an A/D or D/A (although Actel does have a FPGA with some analog stuff), comparitors, LCD drivers, etc.

Also there are micros that can be reprogrammed on the fly via FLASH memory much like a FPGA or CPLD.

The biggest difference is that the microcontroller is a software based solution while the FPGA or CPLD are a hardware based solution.

Depending on what you are doing one may be a better choice than the other but in reality you can use what ever you want to get the job done.

E

 

[calm]

fpga and microcontroller difference

FPGAs and microcontrollers is not the same thing. fpga is a kind of device of pragrammable logic which can configure digital logic on it. cpld is another kind of pragramble device.

 

[rajsrikanth]

difference between fpga and processor

FPGA means field programmable gate array and this is one type of reprogrammable IC and which can be reprogrammed many times. even u can do the programming to make a FPGA to work as microcontroller or micro processor. or anything. microcontroller is nothing but works as system on chip and it can be programmed on FPGA. ucontroller controls the devices.

 

[alt007]

defferent fpga with micro controller

hi dear ,in nutsheel fpga/cpld hardware can be changed while reconfiguring it. but uC IS PRE BUILT U JUST USE IT YOUR WAY BY PROGRAMMING IT .

 

[windowX]

fpga microprocessor difference

FPGA and macro-controller is of course not the same.

but in electronic design, they can sabustitute each other, I mean,

we can implement many jobs, including arithmetic and control thing.

the differences between the two one is that a FPGA will implemented

these function by headware while macro-controller by software.

 

[dilan2005]

difference fpga microcontroller

usually FPGA used where high speed processing is need.
the best word is "REAL TIME Applications" .Fore example MPEG2 Encoding process.

basically FPGA it is large number of gates and Flip-Flops plus interconnection with these blocks.
where we can setup these interconnection to archive our goal . we use Hardware Descriptor Languages like VHDL or Verilog to describe hardware design .Ultimately we can forward this design in to FPGA chip.

 

[grittinjames]

difference fpga and microcontroller

microcontroller is a device with a cpu in built , and well defined i/o ports
using ur program u can just tell cpu to do wt as per pre defined commands


but in case of pld or fpga u will get a device with un connected large number of gates
as per ur logic u can inter connect this gates to obtain ur o/p
until u connects this gates similar to a cpu fpga or cpld will not have

but a micro controller without cpu is meaning less

i hope this helped u

 

[Toki]

comparison microcontroller between fpga

An FPGA design is programmed the hardware way and is suited for very fast applications.

A Microcontroller is programmed the software way and is better suited for medium performance and control.

 

[Nandulal]

difference between fpga and microcontrollers

Microcontroller and FPGA are two separate things. The important thing of the FPGA is that it supports concurrent logic which can be implemented on microcontroller.
This is due to that the FPGA programming is done through the digital logic design while microcontroller executes instruction by instruction. So one can implement microcontroller on FPGA but not reverse.

Nandu