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 ...
Hackaday

Simulating VHDL Of An AVR8 Soft Processor

Okay, now we’re beginning to feel a bit like [Alice]. This tutorial shows you how to simulate VHDL code. This code is intended to run on an FPGA and includes a software-only version of the AVR 8-bit ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Customizing An LLM Tailored Specifically For VHDL Code And Design Of High Performance Processors (IBM)

A new technical paper titled “Customizing a Large Language Model for VHDL Design of High-Performance Microprocessors” was published by researchers at IBM. “The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in ...
TechRepublic

Design and Simulation of 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface Adapter Using VHDL

The 8255A Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) implements a general-purpose I/O interface to connect peripheral equipment to a microcomputer system bus. The core’s functional configuration is ...
EDN

VHDL simulator flags inadequately tested code

The CoValidator VHDL simulator and coverage analyzer, the first component of Impulse's forthcoming CoDeveloper hardware/software design suite, enables users to quickly identify specific lines of code ...
Design-Reuse

Open-source Framework and Practical Considerations for Translating RTL VHDL to SystemC

SystemC has gained wide acceptance in the design of new digital IPs. However, there are numerous IPs already designed in VHDL. With the advances in SystemC ecosystem, like IEEE standardization, TLM-2 ...
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, ...