EDN

Assertion Methodologies for Verilog Design

Sometimes good ideas take a while to catch on in engineering practice. The use of in-line assertions to document assumptions and check for problems in RTL code is one such idea. Long ago proposed for ...
Design-Reuse

Reusing Verilog IP Cores in SystemC Environment by V2SC

SystemC 2.1 supports all hardware concepts introduced by HDLs such as Verilog and VHDL. V2SC proposes a methodology for automatic conversion of Verilog 2001 constructs into SystemC 2.1 language. This ...
EDN

How to implement DSP algorithms using the Xilinx Spartan-3E starter board

Editor's Note: This “How To” tutorial is an excerpt from a recently published book: Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays by Dennis Silage (ISBN-13: 978-1589094864). Dennis is a Professor in ...
Electronic Design

First Commercial Parser Ships For System Verilog

A sure sign that a design language is making its way into the mainstream is the appearance of a spate of tools supporting it. For SystemVerilog devotees, the latest good news is the commercial ...
Design-Reuse

Digital Blocks DMA Controller Verilog IP Core Family Extends Leadership with enhancements ...

GLEN ROCK, New Jersey, January 2, 2023 – Digital Blocks, a leading developer of silicon-proven semiconductor Intellectually Property (IP) soft cores for system-on-chip (SoC) ASIC, ASSP, & FPGA ...
Hackaday

Breathing LED Done With Raw Logic Synthesized From A Verilog Design

Breathing LEDs are an attractive adornment on many electronic devices. These days they’re typically controlled by software but of course there were fading effects back in the days of analog too.