The FPGA Users Guide, Second Edition gives both an explanation of the essential technology of FPGAs and practical guidance on implementation, making it highly suitable for engineers, design managers and system engineers. The real-world insights, recommendations and best practices provided enable design teams to implement more efficient design flows that lead to earlier product deliveries, optimized performance, and extended design lifecycles.

Author Biography

RC Cofer has 30 years of embedded design experience including real-time DSP algorithm development high-speed hardware, ASIC and FPGA design, systems engineering and project management. His technical focus is on system-level design, FPGA-based systems, high-performance hardware and signal processing. He has been educating engineers on FPGA related topics for the 17 years. RC holds an MSEE from the University of Florida and a BSEE from Florida Tech. Ben Harding has a BSEE from the University of Alabama with post graduate studies in digital signal processing, control theory, parallel processing and robotics. Ben has held leadership and design roles in a wide range of design and research projects. He has over 20 years of extensive embedded system design experience. His hardware design experience includes high-speed design with DSPs, network processors and programmable logic. Ben also has embedded software development experience in a broad range of areas including voice and signal processing algorithm development and board-support package development for numerous real-time operating systems.