FPGA Advantages & Disadvantages :

FPGA Advantages :

• Designing with FPGA: Faster, Cheaper
• Ideal for customized designs
• Product differentiation in a fast-changing market
• Offer the advantages of high integration
• High complexity, density, reliability
• Low cost, power consumption, small physical size
• Avoid the problems of ASICs
• high NRE cost, long delay in design and testing
• increasingly demanding electrical issues
• Very fast custom logic
• massively parallel operation
• Faster than microcontrollers and microprocessors
• much faster than DSP engines
• More flexible than dedicated chipsets
• allows unlimited product differentiation
• More affordable and less risky than ASICs
• no NRE, minimum order size, or inventory risk
• Reprogrammable at any time
• in design, in manufacturing, after installation

FPGA Disadvantages :

First disadvantage of FPGA is that it is completely digital but in new generation this problem is solved.

Second Advantages is the design time for a explicit project is much more than time for DSPs.

User Expectations :

• Logic capacity at reasonable cost
• 100,000 to a several million gates
• On-chip fast RAM
• Clock speed
• 150 MHz and above, global clocks, clock management
• Versatile I/O
• To accommodate a variety of standards
• Design effort and time
• synthesis, fast compile times, tested and proven cores
• Power consumption
• must stay within reasonable limits

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