Semiconductor Engineering

Sigasi: Cleaner VHDL And SystemVerilog

Hardware engineers always have looked at software tools and methodologies with a certain degree of envy. While the hardware side has embraced the discipline necessary to get products right prior to ...
EDN

The VHDL and Verilog story

I put a blog entry up on the Oasys blog about their new release, which is the first to support VHDL. But a couple of people told me it was a nice recounting of history so I decided to put a more ...
EDN

VHDL, the new Latin

When Synopsys CEO Aart De Geus stood up to give his key-note address at DVcon'03, nobody expected him to say anything controversial. It's not Aart's style. So when he gave a talk on the history of the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Things You Never Knew About System Verilog

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...
Hackaday

Using VHDL To Generate Discrete Logic PCB Designs

VHDL and Verilog are hardware description languages, used to describe and define logic circuits. They’re typically used to design ASICs and to program FPGAs, essentially using software to define ...
Hackaday

Did You Know YoSys Knows VHDL Too?

We’ve been fans of the Yosys / Nextpnr open-source FPGA toolchain for a long while now, and like [Michael] we had no idea that their oss-cad-suite installer sets up everything so that you can write in ...