Digital Design Tip: FPGA Escape Planning.

The article offers information about the implementation of field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs. In the implementation of FPGA, whether it be individual or as a team, it is advised that one must plan escape routes early in order to avoid multiple downstream iterations and a possibly unroutable printed-circuit board. During planning, one can seek the help of a system designer or layout engineer early to determine component placement so the appropriate region or bank and lock pin assignments are determined earlier. Finally, constraining the signal assignments during planning can make the bits appear sequentially on adjacent pins where possible.