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ART is a digital signal processing technology. Though based on an underlying dynamically reconfigurable logic technology, ART appears to the user like a conventional DSP, programmable in C or assembler.
ART is delivered as IP, allowing anything from an entire ASIC to a part of an SoC or ASSP to benefit from the flexibility and reconfigurability enabled by ART.
ART brings three major advantages to a chip manufacturer:
- Shorter design times than RTL
- New designs in around half the time of RTL
- Modifications to existing designs in a tiny fraction of the time
- Flexible designs which allow modifications without new silicon
- Support multiple design variants with a single silicon design
- Adapt devices to support new or evolving standards
- Fix bugs after tape-out, or in the field
- Greener products
- Extend product lifetimes by providing upgrades
- Reuse older devices in new products by reconfiguring them
- Reduce the cost of waste equipment disposal
Unlike many of its competitors, ART achieves these advantages without imposing a significant overhead in terms of power or area. Designed from the outset with cost, size and power sensitive applications in mind, ART is made for replacing custom-designed hardware where every gate and clock cycle counts. These principles are at the centre of the design philosophy of ART.
Although ART itself is capable of completely general-purpose use, an ART-based device is targeted to a specific application area. This allows ART to avoid many of the overheads associated with other general-purpose technologies.