EDN

VHDL-AMS simulation for battery chargers

The Maxim 2003, and a parameterized NiCd battery model, were created using the VeriBest behavioural modelling language DIABLO. Although many SPICE simulators nowadays provide some high-level modelling ...
EDN

Symphony EDA rolls out VHDL simulator

SAN FRANCISCO — Hardware description language (HDL) simulation provider Symphony EDA has introduced VHDL Simili 3.0, a VHDL simulation environment that the company claims reduces verification cycle ...
La Vanguardia

Circuit Design And Simulation With Vhdl

A presentation of circuit synthesis and circuit simulation using VHDL (including VHDL 2008), with an emphasis on design examples and laboratory exercises.This text offers a comprehensive treatment of ...
Electronic Design

VHDL/Verilog Simulator Shows 300% Speed Improvement

The new Active-HDL 4.2 Standard Edition shows a 300% simulation speed improvement over the previous 4.1 version for both VHDL and Verilog designs. Additionally, for Verilog designs, Active-HDL 4.2 ...
Design-Reuse

Powerful FPGA Design Creation and Simulation IDE Adds VHDL-2019 Support & OSVVM Enhancements

Aldec’s Active-HDL™ enables FPGA designers to take full advantage of the many features within the latest revision to VHDL and helps improve design verification efficiency. Henderson, NV – January 20, ...
Ars Technica

Open Source VHDL (or similar) CPU Simulation Software

Hey all, my last semester of college we had to develop the microarchitecture for a RISC processor. My group was ultimately unsuccessful (our L2 cache had some serious issues), but I wouldn't mind ...
Design-Reuse

Synopsys speeds Verilog, VHDL simulation

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Claiming substantial speedups in its Verilog and VHDL simulation products, Synopsys Inc. this week is announcing releases of its VCS Verilog and Scirocco VHDL simulators. The ...
TechRepublic

Simulation and Optimization of VHDL Code for FPGA-Based Design Using Simulink

Simulations and prototyping have been a very important part of the electronics industry since a very long time. In recent years, FPGA’s have become increasingly important and have found their way into ...
TechRepublic

Design and simulation of 16 Bit UART Serial Communication Module Based on VHDL

In this paper the authors describe the design of UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) based on VHDL. As UART is consider as a low speed, low cost data exchange between computer and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A brief history of logic simulation

In the 1970s, most simulation was at the gate level and primarily used for board level simulation. Commercial simulators included Lasar from Teradyn and Tegas. In 1981, Hilo was created by Brunel ...
Semiconductor Engineering

No Hot Products

While marketers strive to launch the next “hot” product, engineers struggle to prevent literally hot products! A recent breakthrough in thermal modeling comes just in time as electronic component ...
Electronic Design

Verification Techniques For FPGA Designs

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...