Semiconductor Engineering

Improving VHDL

For the past several years, I have had the privilege to chair the IEEE 1076 VHDL working group. In March, we handed off the revisions to the VHDL LRM to our technical editor to finalize the document ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

Reusable VHDL IP in the Real World

Reuse has been an industry buzzword for years now. It is hardly a new idea, and probably goes back as far as the time when man first realised he could use the same fire both for keeping warm and for ...