Conclusions

Abstract

This book focussed on the problem of synthesizing circuits on field-programmable gate array architectures, in particular on the look-up table-and multiplexor-based architectures. It was shown that the synthesis problem for these architectures is different from that solved by the conventional, standard-cell based logic synthesis tools. Both logic optimization and technology mapping, the two main steps of the logic synthesis paradigm, need to be modified in order to obtain high-quality results.