Electronics For You

Icarus Verilog: Your First Step Into Digital Design

Learn how a free tool lets you build and test digital circuits on your computer and see how chips really work before making ...
Hackaday

Teach Yourself Verilog With This Tiny CPU Design

You probably couldn’t write a decent novel if you’d never read a novel. Learning to do something often involves studying what other people did before you. One problem with trying to learn new ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Synopsys VCS Verilog Simulator Incorporates Breakthrough Verification Capabilities

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2001-- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS), the technology leader for complex IC design, today announced VCS(TM) 6.0.1, the latest release of the industry's ...
Linux Journal

Icarus Verilog: Open-Source Verilog More Than a Year Later

About 16 months ago, in the February 2001 Linux Journal [see www.linuxjournal.com/article/4428], we reviewed the state of open source in electronic design automation ...
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, ...
EDN

Simulating mixed-mode designs with Verilog-only models

As the capacities of today's chips grow and their geometries shrink, specialized clock-generation circuits are necessary to reduce electrical-magnetic emissions. One scheme that is gaining industry ...
Electronic Design

Verilog Simulator Adds Full-Featured Coverage Analysis And A C/C++ Interface

The latest VCS Verilog simulator from Synopsys contains built-in comprehensive coverage analysis. With it, design teams using VCS 6.0.1 can determine their verification quality before tapeout.