Abstract:

HardCopy® APEXTM devices extend the flexibility of high-density FPGAs to a cost-effective, high-volume production solution. The migration process from an Altera® FPGA to a HardCopy APEX device offers seamless migration of a high-density system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) design to a low-cost alternative device with minimal risk. Using HardCopy APEX devices, Altera™s SOPC solutions can be leveraged from prototype to production, while reducing costs and speeding time-to-market. A significant benefit of HardCopy devices is that customers do not need to be involved in the device migration process. Unlike application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) development, the HardCopy design flow does not require generation of test benches, test vectors, or timing and functional simulation. The HardCopy migration process only requires the Quartus® II software-generated output files from a fully functional APEX 20KE or APEX 20KC device. Altera performs the migration and delivers funct