Hackaday

Custom RISC-V Processor Built In VHDL

While ARM continues to make inroads into the personal computing market against traditional chip makers like Intel and AMD, it’s not a perfect architecture and does have some disadvantages. While it’s ...
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 ...
EDN

VHDL 101 – From Logic Gates to Adders

VHDL is all about creating logic. As a descriptive language, all the HDL languages bring something unique to programming – making true parallel logic circuit. As we take baby steps into VHDL, we will ...
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 ...
EDN

VHDL 101 – IF, CASE, and WHEN in a Process

Last time, in the third installment of VHDL we discussed logic gates and Adders. Let’s move on to some basic VHDL structure. All HDL languages bridge what for many feels like a strange brew of ...
Design-Reuse

SystemVerilog-VHDL-SystemC Verification IP Reuse Methodology

The growing complexity of SoCs and the reduced life cycle of electronic products demand higher levels of design productivity while meeting compressed development schedules. The reuse of design IP ...
Embedded

Guide to VHDL for embedded software developers: Part 3 – ALU logic & FSMs

As can be seen from the VHDL, we have defined a specific 16 bit bus inthis example, and while this is generally fine for processor design with afixed architecture, sometimes it is useful to have a ...
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, ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_ENG 355: ASIC and FPGA Design

This course will introduce students to practical design methodologies for developing applications for FPGAs and ASICs. You will learn the fundamentals for FPGA and ASIC design through software coding ...
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 ...