Sometimes good ideas take a while to catch on in engineering practice. The use of in-line assertions to document assumptions and check for problems in RTL code is one such idea. Long ago proposed for ...

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 ...

A key part of any analogue design flow is having models of the components for simulation. Traditional Spice models of basic components such as transistors and capacitors written in C or C++ are ...

The world of open-source software is making inroads into areas beyond operating systems, Internet and desktop applications, GUIs and scripting languages. One less well-known area of open-source ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. This article discusses techniques used to achieve this transition, including proxy SystemVerilog interface task calls ...