How to get started with FPGA DSP designs.
We live in a very business oriented society. As a result, new products are subjected to market driven specifications such as time to market and cost. Many of these products require computer systems that also have to take these specifications into account. For this reason embedded systems are far more applicable than pc type computing solutions. An embedded system is basically a fully customized computer system which is optimized for its specific function. It can usually be developed and produced at a lower cost than a traditional computer solution.

I will focus on DSP (digital signal processing) on FPGA to see the advantages and disadvantages.DSP (digital signal processing) is implied in some specific applications where the necessary filter order is too high or the computation scheme is too complex for analog circuit implementation. Analog signal filtering in the discrete domain can be done with the use of a simple processing chain, containing an analog-digital converter (ADC), a computation unit that can be a DSP, an FPGA either a personal computer, and a digital-analog converter. In this article I will concentrate on a processing chain with an FPGA and describe the advantages and disadvantages of it.