DSP techniques using FPGAs

Performing DSP in an FPGA or an SoC-based FPGA, such as the Zynq-7000 SoC or the UltraScale+ MPSoC, is no different than performing it in an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) specifically built for such operations. There are many advantages to performing DSP operations in an FPGA technology in comparison to using an ASIC and these are mostly due to the flexibility, extensibility, and scaling advantages of using an FPGA-based DSP solution. Classically, FPGAs were chosen to implement DSP computation units for many industries, telecommunication being one of the dominant ones. Wireless communication standards were still evolving and the time to market was, and is still, an important business objective, making using a flexible solution, such as FPGA-based DSP, an attractive option. In these applications, most of the time, the FPGA device was a companion chip to a powerful processor. The architecture of these solutions evolved around reconfigurability...