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 ...

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that the Verilog hardware description language (HDL) would spawn an industry and be a fixture of electronics design for more than 15 years. HDLs were a ...

This document discusses Random constraint-based verification and explains how random verification can complement the directed verification for the generic designs. In our case this is demonstrated by ...

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.

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 ...

This course will give you the foundation for using Hardware Description Languages, specifically VHDL and Verilog for Logic Design. You will learn the history of both VHDL and Verilog and how to use ...

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.

This online engineering specialization will help you gain proficiency in creating prototypes or products for a variety of applications using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). You will cover a ...

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 ...

Cliff Cummings, owner of third-party design services company Sunburst Design Inc., is one of those ASIC designers who's not content to sit on the sidelines mumbling about the pitfalls of IC tool flows ...