VLSI Introduction

Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip.
VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed.

The use of VHDL

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is becoming increasingly popular as a way to capture complex digital electronic circuits for both simulation and synthesis. Digital circuits captured using VHDL can be easily simulated, are more likely to be synthesizable into multiple target technologies…

What is verification?

Verification is a manner of making sure that a given hardware layout works as anticipated. Chip layout is a completely pricey and time-ingesting manner and price millions to fabricate. Functional defects in the layout if stuck at an early degree in the layout manner will assist keep costs…

SystemC

Most software languages are not particularly suited to modeling hardware systems. SystemC was developed to provide features that facilitate hardware modeling, particularly the parallelism of hardware, in a mainstream programming language.

Simulating and Debugging HDL code

Essential to HDL design is the ability to simulate HDL programs. Simulation allows an HDL description of a design (called a model) to pass design verification, an important milestone that validates the design’s intended function (specification) against the code…

Introduction to Microprocessor Design

Introduction to microprocessor design

Processors are the brains of computers. Other components allow a computer to store or retrieve data and to input or output data, but the processor performs computations and does something useful with…

Microprocessor design using VLSI

VLSI microprocessor design occurs in a number of stages, which include creating the initial functional or behavioral specification, encoding this specification into a hardware description language, and breaking down the design into modules and generating sizes and shapes…

ModelSim

ModelSim is a multi-language environment by Mentor Graphics, for simulation of hardware description languages such as VHDL, Verilog and SystemC, and includes a built-in C debugger. ModelSim can be used independently, or in conjunction with Intel Quartus Prime, Xilinx ISE or Xilinx Vivado. Simulation is…

Scripting

A scripting or script language is a programming language used for a special run-time environment which automates the execution of tasks. The tasks could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted, rather than compiled.

Verilog for Microprocessor Design

Verilog: