Digital hardware design typically is done using a specialized language, called a hardware description language (HDL). This approach is based on the idea that hardware design has unique requirements.

Spade is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) developed at Linköping University, Sweden. Other HDLs you might have heard of include Verilog and VHDL. Hardware engineers use HDLs to ...

In an earlier blog, I took it upon myself to declare field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs) a technology that is dead on arrival. In Field Programmable Analog & Gallium Arsenide, I drew a ...

Discovering a design error after you send youraverage chip to manufacturing can be costlyand embarrassing, not to mention hazardous toyour career. However, as Intel ...

Fifteen years ago verification of FPGA designs was easy but as the size of FPGAs has increased so have the verification challenges, Jerry Kaczynski explains. Today it is not unusual for FPGA users to ...

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 ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Lauro Rizzatti, Verification Consultant I recently attended an invited talk by a senior manager of a design group ...