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

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Optimization Methodologies for Cycle-Accurate SystemC Models Converted from RTL VHDL

IP design-houses are hard-pressed by their customers to provide SystemC models of their portfolio IPs, despite already existing VHDL views. VHDL IPs can be translated to SystemC, ensuring correctness, ...
EDN

Putting the R in RTL : Coding Registers in Verilog and VHDL

Many years ago, when I was a young man and the Boston Red Sox had just lost the 1986 world series, controversy stalked the land of hardward development. A new technology called Register Transfer ...
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 ...