Questions
Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:
- Name some of the reasons that make an FPGA-based SoC the primary target technology for a full SoC system architecture implementation.
- How does the architecture definition phase interact with the company’s business strategy and its decision-making process?
- List the main technical criteria that make a specific FPGA SoC a potential target device to implement the projected SoC architecture.
- Summarize the methodology to use to start the architecture exploration phase, as presented in this chapter.
- How is the architecture exploration phase concluded and what is its overall objective?
- What step follows the architecture exploration phase and what is its main objective?
- Describe the main functions that are performed by the ETS introduced in this chapter.
- Why is UDP packet filtering chosen to be performed in hardware rather than in software?
- How does the hardware-based...
