Hackaday

FPGAs In C With Cynth

Programming an FPGA with Verilog looks a lot like programming. But it isn’t, at least not in the traditional sense. There have been several systems that aim to take C code and convert it into a ...
Hackaday

Visualizing Verilog Simulation

You don’t usually think of simulating Verilog code — usually for an FPGA — as a visual process. You write a test script colloquially known as a test bench and run your simulation. You might get some ...
EDN

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Guidelines for Verilog-A Compact Model Coding

The Verilog-AMS hardware description language [1] includes extensions dedicated to compact modeling, but does not define a reserved subset for compact modeling. This lack of specification combined ...
EDN

‘Obfuscators’ render Verilog, VHDL unreadable

Santa Cruz, Calif. — Providing a new approach to intellectual property (IP) protection, software engineering firm Semantic Designs has released production-quality “obfuscators” for Verilog 2001 and ...
Linux Journal

Open Source in Electronic Design Automation

The world of open-source software is making inroads into areas beyond operating systems, Internet and desktop applications, GUIs and scripting languages. One less well-known area of open-source ...
New Electronics

MathWorks enhances range with fpga and asic coding and verification products

In a move described as a 'significant enhancement' to its product range, MathWorks has launched HDL Coder, which allows HDL code to be generated directly from MATLAB and used to implement fpgas and ...