Custom Blocks -The Key Ingredients for Embedded FPGA Success, Achronix's Speedcore embedded FPGAs utilize custom blocks to deliver high-performance ASICs.

Oct. 27, 2017, Oct. 27, 2017 – Standalone FPGAs have been the mainstay for configurable, high-performance designs. Lately, integration with CPUs has been done from the perspective of including Cortex-A9s to help control the FPGA to augmenting a CPU, as with Intel's latest Xeon/FPGA combinations.

Achronix's Speedster line has provided high-speed FPGA support for a while now. Developers can still take advantage of these standalone FPGAs, but the Speedcore and Speedchip embedded FPGAs (eFPGA) bring with them new development options (Fig. 1). Speedster FPGAs are available with TSMC's 16-nm technology, and 7-nm support is expected in 2018. These FPGAs can have over two million lookup tables (LUTs).