How FPGA is fabricated and how its programming works?

[corgan]

Can anyone provide information about how FPGA work?
I mean that how FPGA is fabricated and how the programming
make the circuit work.
Thanks a lot!

 

[eda_wiz]

How FPGA work??

I will give a simple example .. consider you want to implement a 2x1 nand gate.

And you have 4:1 mux ..and SRAM memory

you can tie the mux inputs to 0 or 1 so that it acts as a nand or nor gate and keep the select pins as the input of the gate.

many techniques like sram,anitfuse etc are used in fpgas to store the bit pattern used for programming.

Read this turotrial
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jayar/pubs/brown/survey.html
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jayar/pubs/brown/survey.ps.gz


regards

 

[ivy214]

Re: How FPGA work??

I will give a simple example .. consider you want to implement a 2x1 nand gate.

And you have 4:1 mux ..and SRAM memory

you can tie the mux inputs to 0 or 1 so that it acts as a nand or nor gate and keep the select pins as the input of the gate.

many techniques like sram,anitfuse etc are used in fpgas to store the bit pattern used for programming.

Read this turotrial
h**p://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jayar/pubs/brown/survey.html
h**p://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jayar/pubs/brown/survey.ps.gz


regards
Whizkid

dear whizkid:
thank your reply.
i am a beginer, i down this paper.it's postfix is "ps".
i don't know how to read it ! i have already installed acrobat reader 5.0.
can you tell me which soft can read it?

thanks
ivy214

 

[eda_wiz]

How FPGA work??

u need GSVIEW for opening the file.

find it in these links.. or directly download both these exe.s and install

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get814.htm
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get46.htm

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs814/gs814w32.exe

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv46w32.exe

 

[ivy214]

Re: How FPGA work??

dear whizkid:
thank you very much!
now,i can read this paper!

best regards
ivy214

 

[phone]

Re: How FPGA work??

In simple words,

FPGA get manafactured like an ASIC. They use transmission gates for route switching and use D flip flops for implemnting logic (which otherwise called as LUTS). Essentially when programming you are configuring the D flops and routing matrix. Outputs of D FF are used to selec the combinational logic using transmission gates.

 

[nj_jack]

How FPGA work??

you can read the datasheet carefully. and you can obtain a lot of useful knowledge. I do it before I design a digital system with CPLD or FPGA.

 

[geek]

Re: How FPGA work??

This is a good website on basics of FPGA and FPGA Design projects

https://www.fpga4fun.com/

 

[Jackwang]

How FPGA work??

Fisrt:
you can design program using vhdl or verilog.
second:
synthesis it and generate Downloadable files.
third:
download this file to the FPGA through download cable.
finally:
hardware debug.
that's ok!

 

[power-twq]

Re: How FPGA work??

FPGA use sram cell for storing programming information,

and use mosfet for switch.

Can anyone provide information about how FPGA work?
I mean that how FPGA is fabricated and how the programming
make the circuit work.
Thanks a lot!

 

[osbourne]

Re: How FPGA work??

See the book "Digital Design" by John Wakerly. There are some chapters on internal
structure of PLDs, CPLDs and FPGAs. Also, you may have a look at Data Sheets of FPGAS (e.g. DS031) or Application Notes at Xilinx homepage.