FPGAs offer an opportunity to accelerate your digital signal processing application up to 1000 times over a traditional DSP microprocessor.
Microprocessors are slow.
Digital signal processing has traditionally been done using enhanced microprocessors. While the high volume of generic product provides a low cost solution, the performance falls seriously short for many applications. FPGAs accelerate DSP Recent increases in Field Programmable Gate Array performance and size offer a new hardware acceleration opportunity. Each cell performs a simple logic function defined by a user's program. Custom hardware has never been so easy to develop.