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 ...
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

Lattice and Aldec Announce New Alliance For FPGA Design And Verification

Simulator Delivers Industry Leading Speed, and is the Only OEM Mixed Language Simulator for FPGA Design HILLSBORO, OR - April 21, 2008 - Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC) and Aldec, ...
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

Dolphin Integration announces four times faster VHDL-AMS simulation with SMASH

Grenoble, France -- December 22nd, 2008 – DOLPHIN Integration announces the immediate availability of an update to SMASH 5.11 which delivers up to a four-fold acceleration of VHDL-AMS simulation ...
Electronic Design

Ansoft certifies VHDL-AMS models for Simplorer

Ansoft Corporation (www.ansoft.com) has certified the VHDL-AMS models available from the FAT-AK30 working group of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie - ...
TechRepublic

Design and Simulation of Eight Point FFT Using VHDL and MATLAB

The FFT are widely used in various areas such as telecommunications (radio communications links and telephone networks), speech and image processing, medical electronic and voice signal processing and ...
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

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 ...
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 ...
Purdue University

Legacy Course Catalog

Description: An introduction to the Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) programming, VHDL language constructs to build combinational and sequential logic circuits, ...