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FPGA Guidelines for Efficient Design and Verification

Willem Gruter

| Created: February 4, 2019 | Updated: March 16, 2020

Developing hardware that involves an FPGA requires work in both an FPGA environment and a PCB design tool. They are separate environments, but require close interaction. In this interaction there are different approaches and strategies possible. In my presentation I will outline different approaches, peculiarities of FPGA systems, useful naming conventions and explain why keeping a strict relationship between names on the FPGA and PCB will save you time and improve the quality of the design.

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About Author

About Author

Willem is an electrical engineer with a software background. He has been involved in
various products related to HDL design, FPGA and PCB. His expertise is in software
product development and translating customer requests into product functionality.

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