Projects Suggested for FPGA/ASIC Implementations

We have seen how to design VLSI systems using Verilog in the previous chapters. Complete system designs were presented for some projects, such as PCI Arbiter and Discrete Cosine Transform and Quantization Processor for Video compression applications. The design complexities were up to about 120,000 gates mapped on FPGAs. We have also implemented a couple of designs as examples, using FPGA and digital input/output boards. These are Traffic Light Controller and a Real Time Clock. All the codes developed work readily on any FPGA or as an ASIC. In this chapter, a number of applications are suggested for you to design on FPGA/ASIC.