Hackaday

Chisel Away At FPGA Development

Most of the time if you were to want to develop for an FPGA, you might turn to Verilog or VHDL. Both of these are quite capable, but they are also firmly rooted in languages that are old-fashioned by ...
Hackaday

Icestorm Tools Roundup: Open Source FPGA Dev Guide

We like the ICE40 FPGA from Lattice for two reasons: there are cheap development boards like the Icestick available for it and there are open source tools. We’ve based several tutorials on the ...
EDN

An overview of SystemVerilog 3.1

SystemVerilog is an extensive set of enhancements to the IEEE 1364 Verilog-2001 standard. These enhancements provide powerful new capabilities for modeling hardware at the RTL and system level, along ...
EDN

How to implement DSP algorithms using the Xilinx Spartan-3E starter board

Editor's Note: This “How To” tutorial is an excerpt from a recently published book: Embedded Design Using Programmable Gate Arrays by Dennis Silage (ISBN-13: 978-1589094864). Dennis is a Professor in ...
Design-Reuse

Reusing Verilog IP Cores in SystemC Environment by V2SC

SystemC 2.1 supports all hardware concepts introduced by HDLs such as Verilog and VHDL. V2SC proposes a methodology for automatic conversion of Verilog 2001 constructs into SystemC 2.1 language. This ...
Linux Journal

Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...
Design-Reuse

Easier UVM Sequences - SystemVerilog UVM Sequence and Task Equivalence

SystemVerilog [1] UVM [2] sequences [4][5] are a powerful way to model stimulus and response for functional verification. Unfortunately using SystemVerilog UVM sequences can require an extensive ...