Engineering Management Methods for FPGA Products in the Aviation and the Aerospace Fields

In order to meet the complex functional processing requirements of electronic equipment in the aviation and the aerospace fields, FPGA products are more and more widely used. By analyzing the technical characteristics of development for FPGA product in aviation and aerospace fields, comparing the effective methods of software engineering, this paper puts forward the method of implementing the engineering management of FPGA products by introducing FPGA verification procedure in the development for FPGA production. According to the different stages of the FPGA development process, the verification procedure can be divided into different technical processes, such as HDL Code Rule Checking, HDL Code Walkthrough, Simulation Verification, Timing Verification and so on. These verification procedures coverage from RTL code to gate-level net list. Which can effectively detect and repair the design defects of each stage in the FPGA product development. In one aviation project, many design defects are found and repaired by using this method, which effectively improves the quality and reliability of FPGA products.