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07 2007

Structured ASICs: Dead or Alive? Part 2

Although structured ASICs offer system designers many advantages, they have failed to find a comfortable place in the system-designer’s toolkit. Despite the dismal picture painted in part 1, however, structured ASICs have found at least one viable market niche: FPGA replacement in volume applications. Compared with the FPGAs they replace, these structured ASICs run faster, consume less power, and cost less.

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