EDN

Model discrete components in VHDL

The two wires that the telephone company provides to a home or business are amazingly complex. The two-wire interface has been around for over 125 years, and has accumulated numerous design warts to ...
EDN

VHDL 101 – Hierarchy in VHDL Code

All designs need structure to make them easy to develop and maintain. We all use abstraction in our designs regardless of if it being electronics, software, or mechanical. In this article we will look ...
Design-Reuse

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 ...
Design-Reuse

SystemVerilog-VHDL-SystemC Verification IP Reuse Methodology

The growing complexity of SoCs and the reduced life cycle of electronic products demand higher levels of design productivity while meeting compressed development schedules. The reuse of design IP ...
Electronic Design

VHDL 2008: Just The New Stuff

I can hear some of you asking the question already: “VHDL? That’s still around?” Essentially relegated to the status of Verilog roadkill in the HDL wars back in the 1980s, the VHSIC Hardware ...
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, ...