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During past few years, the advancement in process technology has resulted in a great increase in the capacity of FPGAs; the devices which were once small have now become large and are used to implement complete designs. Increase in the capacity of FPGAs has allowed their transition from devices that once contained only homogeneous blocks to the devices that now contain a mixture of blocks ranging from soft blocks (e.g. Configurable Logic Blocks) to hard-blocks like multipliers, adders, RAMs etc. The use of hard-blocks in FPGAs has resulted in an improved overall efficiency and now they are used for large and complex applications.
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Farooq, U., Marrakchi, Z., Mehrez, H. (2012). Heterogeneous Architectures Exploration Environments. In: Tree-based Heterogeneous FPGA Architectures. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3594-5_4
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