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EFPGA Acceleration in SoCs — Understanding the Speedcore IP Design Process (WP008)

The Speedcore design and integration methodology has been defined with intimate awareness of the difficulties ASIC engineering teams must contend with. All the necessary files and flows for capturing the functional, timing and power characteristics of a user-defined and programmed Speedcore instance, along with support for successfully reconfiguring an already field-deployed Speedcore IP embedded in an ASIC, are available to an ASIC development team either as products of the ACE design tools or as deliverables provided by Achronix. This methodology has already been proven in silicon and readily accommodates variations and preferences in company-specific ASIC development methodologies.

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Embedded FPGA – a New System-Level Programming Paradigm (WP006)

The current public debate on the future of the semiconductor industry has turned to discussions about a growing selection of technologies that focuses instead on new system architectures and better use of available silicon through new concepts in circuit, device, and packaging design. The emergence of embedded FPGA is, in fact, not only essential at this juncture of the microelectronics history, but also inevitable. To understand this, a review of the history of FPGA technology is in order.

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Using FPGAs to Accelerate Data Centers (WP005)

With the technology industry at a crossroads — the effective repeal of Moore's Law  — data centers have become the sweet spot of the technology sector, showing healthy revenue growth and attracting new system solutions in both hardware and software. Unlike the ethereal promise of upcoming wonders from AI, robotics and the IoT, data center growth and innovation is happening in the here and now, with an even brighter future ahead the moment other nascent markets emerge from their chrysalis with killer apps of their own.

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Speedcore Power Estimator User Guide (UG073)

The Achronix Speedcore Power Estimator tool provides a platform to calculate the power requirements for Achronix Speedcore eFPGAs. This user guide gives a detailed overview of the thermal and power needs depending on the device, environment and utilization of components in the design.

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Speedcore Configuration User Guide (UG061)

During normal SoC operation, the Speedcore eFPGA core requires configuration by the end user. This guide covers the details of how to configure a Speedcore instance via JTAG, CPU, or serial flash interface. Also included are details on the Achronix Configuration Bus (ACB) interface that can be used to program configuration bits for ASIC IP surrounding the Speedcore eFPGA.

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Speedcore Software Integration and Flow User Guide (UG062)

Speedcore Software Integration and Flow User Guide (UG062)

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Speedcore Clock and Reset Architecture User Guide (UG063)

This user guide details the clock structure for a Speedcore instance, covering the global core clock network, and interface clock networks. This guide also covers various clocking scenarios and their impact on timing closure.

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Speedster7t Network on Chip User Guide (UG089)

The Speedster7t FPGA family of devices has a network hierarchy that enables extremely high-speed dataflow between the FPGA core and the interfaces around the periphery, as well as between logic within the FPGA itself. This on-chip network hierarchy supports a cross-sectional bidirectional bandwidth of 20 Tbps. It supports a multitude of interface protocols including GDDR6, DDR4/5, 400G Ethernet, and PCI Express Gen5 data streams, while greatly simplifying access to memory and high-speed protocols. Achronix's network on chip (NoC) provides for read/write transactions throughout the device, as well as specialized support for 400G Ethernet streams in selected columns. The features of the NoC described in this user guide generally pertain to the entire Speedster7t family of devices. In order to help users understand specific connections and features of the NoC, this user guide focuses on the NoC as implemented in the AC7t1500 device.

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