Summary

In this closing chapter of Part 3 and this book, we looked at some more advanced applications where FPGA-based SoCs are well suited as a single-chip architecture. They offer a fast time-to-market product development, a lower product cost, and a lower power solution in comparison to multi-chip-based architectures. These advanced applications include sophisticated communication applications that follow the OSI model, or part of it. They also span industrial control applications such as modern PLCs with advanced computation capabilities and feature extensibility using the FPGA PL and DSP computation engines. As we examined in detail in this book, SoCs built using PL have optimal integration and interoperability between the Cortex-A9 CPU cluster and the PL. This flexible architecture offers many capabilities for building communication applications that benefit from the acceleration and filtering extensions that can be hosted in the FPGA logic. PLCs also require more at the Edge...