DSP Co-Processing in FPGAs: Embedding High-Performance, Low-Cost DSP Functions (WP212) - FPGAs have been used in DSP applications for years; more recently FPGAs have been emerging as ideal co-processors for standard DSP devices. FPGAs provide tremendous computational throughput by using highly parallel architectures, and are hardware reconfigurable, allowing the designer to develop customized architectures for ideal implementation of their algorithms. The new generation of FPGAs developed using 90-nm process technology provide the designer with an even more cost-effective solution. This white paper takes a look at some common high-performance DSP functions and calculates their effective implementation costs.