Dec. 22, 2017 – This past January, I had postulated that 2017 would be the "Year of the Embedded FPGA", as a compelling IP offering for many SoC designs (link). As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be interesting to see how that prediction turned out.
The criteria that would be appropriate metrics include: increasing capital investment; increasing customer adoption; support for a diverse set of applications; and, an emerging set of standard product offerings to accelerate adoption. To be sure, qualified test vehicles fabricated on multiple foundry process nodes are also crucial, as is a solid methodology flow for design synthesis and physical personalization.
If you have been following eFPGA technology, you have no doubt seen recent press releases highlight the growing investment and the customer endorsements. In addition, previous Semiwiki articles have described how eFPGA features are addressing both high-performance and low-power requirements, as well as the ease with which the IP block is connected to the pervasive AMBA bus protocols (link, link). So far, the prediction is looking pretty good. 
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