Summary and Outlook

In this chapter, a brief look back of vanilla FPGA EDA is summarized. Commercial FPGA EDA tools for both chip design and application design is very mature and ML-aided engines are starting to show their superior power against traditional engines. Using high-level languages to unify the programming models across computing platforms is continuously evolving, mainly by the “big two” vendors. On the other hand, using mostly open-sourced EDA tools to democratize vanilla FPGA technology across industry and academia also draws a lot of attention. At the end, future works of this book is presented to make a more comprehensive coverage of FPGA EDA knowledge domain.