Summary

In this chapter, we looked at some advanced applications where FPGA-based SoCs are well suited as a single-chip architecture with a fast time to market product development and a lower cost solution, which is also lower power in comparison to multi-chip-based architectures. These advanced applications find many uses in DSP and video and image processing systems. Like the generic hardware acceleration capabilities of FPGA-based SoCs, DSP applications are well suited to these types of devices. SoCs built using PL have tight integration between the Cortex-A9 CPU cluster and the PL. This flexible architecture offers a scalable DSP solution where the exact amount of compute capabilities is used. Designers can start with a pure software solution, then they can offload heavy-compute DSP and video and image processing algorithms to the FPGA logic, which is rich in DSP building blocks. We examined the intrinsic DSP capabilities of the Cortex-A9 CPU, which make use of the Advanced SIMD...