Hackaday

FPGA Used VHDL For Fractals

Over on GitHub, [ttsiodras] wanted to learn VHDL. So he started with an algorithm to do Mandelbrot sets and moved it to an FPGA. Because of the speed, he was able to accomplish real-time zooming. You ...
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, ...
Hackaday

FPGA Snake Game Uses No VHDL At All

We’re really not supposed to start a feature like this; but this hack is awesome. It’s a game of Snake implemented by an FPGA dev board. It uses a 16×16 LED matrix as the display and an SNES ...
New Electronics

Faster FPGA verification

Launched in 2015, and used by about 20% of all VHDL FPGA designers, UVVM is one of the fastest growing verification methodologies in the EDA industry. Today, design verification accounts for more than ...
Semiconductor Engineering

FPGA VHDL Verification

This is actually possible – and with an average efficiency improvement of 20% to 50% for medium to high complexity FPGAs. Less for data path oriented designs and more for control or protocol oriented ...
EDN

VHDL 101 – Introduction

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) look like very complex integrated circuits. Performing bespoke functions and having engineers programming them in strange languages puts many people off. This is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Starting To Simplify Design Of Programmable Logic

AI is beginning to make inroads into designing and managing programmable logic, where it can be used to simplify and speed up ...
Design-Reuse

Understanding FPGAs – From Architecture to SoC, RFSoC, and Embedded FPGA Technologies

One of the most crucial components of modern digital systems, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) provide for flexibility, parallel processing, and hardware-level acceleration. FPGAs, in contrast ...
Linux Journal

FPGA Programming with Linux

Free software licenses and operating systems like GNU/Linux make it possible to learn programming and customize state-of-the-art software in countless ways. Hacking software, however, isn't the last ...
EDN

Timing Closure on FPGAs

Have you ever written code that behaves correctly under a simulator only to have intermittent failures in the field? Or maybe your code no longer functions properly when you compile with a newer ...