Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...
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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 ...
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Free Model Foundry Announces Availability of VHDL and Verilog Models for Spansion's MirrorBit(R) ORNAND(TM) Solutions

Addition of Spansion Flash Memory Marks 10,000th Part Number for Free Model Foundry SAN JOSE, Calif.--Aug. 10, 2006--Free Model Foundry (FMF), an open source model warehouse and design services ...
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A guide to VHDL for embedded software developers: Part 1 - Essential commands

Editor’s Note: In this series of articles based on his book – Design Recipes for FPGAs – Peter Wilson provides a basic quick overview of VHDL (VHSIC hardware description language) followed by ...
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Putting the R in RTL : Coding Registers in Verilog and VHDL

Many years ago, when I was a young man and the Boston Red Sox had just lost the 1986 world series, controversy stalked the land of hardward development. A new technology called Register Transfer ...