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Video
The Semiconductor Hub is a single website for the people and companies of the semiconductor value chain, from chip design and IP to manufacturing, packaging and test. Our first YouTube video gives a short tour of what it contains: lifecycles, engineering tools, a glossary, news, jobs, a company directory and events, with the page address for each. Watch it below, then visit the Hub; joining is free. Key takeaways The video is the first in …
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Murugavel Ganesan
October 29, 2026
Technology
The Semiconductor Hub (thesemiconhub.com) is a semiconductor knowledge and industry platform that brings market intelligence, product lifecycles, engineering and business tools, a company directory, careers, news and community into one connected place. It went live in a limited first phase on 20 October 2026. Its aim is to help engineers, product managers, founders and students see how technology, economics and the companies behind the silicon c…
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Murugavel Ganesan
October 26, 2026
Technology
TechSimplifiedTV is an Indian semiconductor education platform that explains VLSI and chip design through three channels: a YouTube channel, the blog TechSimplifiedTV.in, and The Semiconductor Podcast (TSP). It aims to connect what students learn in college with what engineers do in industry. This post profiles the platform, the person behind it, and what each channel offers. Key takeaways TechSimplifiedTV covers VLSI, chip verification, f…
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Murugavel Ganesan
April 30, 2025
VHDL
The best free HDL simulators today are Icarus Verilog and Verilator for Verilog and SystemVerilog, and GHDL and NVC for VHDL. All four are open source and actively maintained. If you need a mixed-language or full SystemVerilog simulator at no cost, the free editions that ship with FPGA vendor tools (AMD Vivado's built-in simulator and Questa Altera FPGA Starter Edition) and the browser-based EDA Playground are the practical options. Free H…
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Murugavel Ganesan
March 19, 2023
VHDL
The best online VHDL resources today are a handful of long-lived tutorial sites (VHDL-Online, Doulos KnowHow, the UCR "Learn by Example" tutorial), a few classic free texts such as Ashenden's VHDL Cookbook, and free simulators you can run in a browser or on a laptop, such as EDA Playground, GHDL and NVC. Pair one tutorial with one good textbook and a free simulator, and write small designs from the first day. This page keeps the or…
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The Editor's Desk
January 08, 2014
Semiconductor Industry
Any reader can contribute files to the shared web folder. This can be a document you created or just reference to some non-copyrighted files which you have come across. There is no registration required and neither do we have to invite anyone as a contributor. Just use the " SHARED " URL above and you have full access – including delete permissions – to the files in that folder. Please give "5 Seconds for it to load fully :-…
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Murugavel Ganesan
October 08, 2013
Semiconductor Industry
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Murugavel Ganesan
October 06, 2013
Semiconductor Industry
We have a new look and feel to the articles that you loved most :-) Your favorite blog, digitalelectronics.blogspot.com is now blog.digitalelectronics.co.in . Those who have already visited this blog since yesterday would have noticed a much simpler clutter free appearance while keeping the legacy features. We’ve refined the design and encapsulated the information accumulated over the years into an easily digestible and navigatable website. …
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Murugavel Ganesan
September 05, 2013
Semiconductor Industry
A directory of semiconductor, VLSI and electronics design websites and blogs, first built from reader submissions and kept up to date. Updated 3 November 2026: every link was checked. Dead links, expired domains and sites that now show unrelated content were removed, and a set of current, well-maintained resources was added. To suggest a site or report a broken link, leave a comment below. News and industry analysis (Sponsored) Semiconduct…
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Murugavel Ganesan
September 04, 2013
Semiconductor Industry
We are listed on EEWeb Site of the day - May 25, 2011 . EEWeb is a premier electrical engineering community that strives to offer its members the best online resources for hardware designers. EEWeb is independently owned and operated by co-founders Cody Miller and Joe Wolin. The development of the site began in late 2007 and was released in late 2010. We have partnered with Digi-Key Corporation as an exclusive sponsor of EEWeb and we are proud t…
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Murugavel Ganesan
May 27, 2011
EDA Tools
The electronic design automation (EDA) tool industry is big business, and commercial licenses are extremely expensive. Open standards have driven many proprietary EDA technologies to be publicly released as free/libre open source software (F/LOSS) and some have become IEEE standards. In this article, author Arthur Low reviews the history of key advances in ICs and EDA tools. The common theme presented in this article for the driver of technology…
SoC Design
Rising product complexity and intense market pressures present major challenges to designers of electronic systems. To stay competitive, tight coordination between processes used by hardware and software engineers is critical to optimize product quality. This is especially true while controlling costs and meeting tight timelines. This whitepaper discusses key elements of development and explores how the use of shared processes between hardwar…
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Murugavel Ganesan
March 23, 2011
SoC Design
There are plenty of really good, proven processor cores on the market today. But if you have more than simple control tasks, perhaps you've considered using a processor that you can customize. This paper discusses 10 good reasons why you should consider customizing your core in your next SoC design.
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Murugavel Ganesan
December 02, 2010
Embedded Systems
Hardware design specialist Libelium opens a new community site for electronics enthusiasts offering a wide range of tutorials, cost-effective products, news, customer service and user-created hacks & recipes. Libelium, a leading wireless and electronics innovator, announces the launch of the Cooking Hacks website. Drawing on the similarity between cooks exchanging recipes and engineers sharing hacks, the new website offers a wide range of …
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Murugavel Ganesan
September 16, 2010
India Semiconductors
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and IITs, the premier engineering colleges of India, have earlier joined hands to produce the world's largest repository of technical video lectures and web-based courses geared towards science and engineering students. The IIT and IISc faculty have recorded around 4,750 videos for this project till date and anyone, anywhere can watch the lectures online through YouTube at http://youtube.com/iit . [via]…
Synthesis
The High Level Synthesis Blue Book is a comprehensive guide for designing hardware using C++. It is targeted to RTL designers that are currently using, moving, or planning to move, to an HLS design environment. Check the blog post by Thomas Bollaert and More here . The High-Level Synthesis Bluebook is available online by clicking here . Author Michael Fingeroff will also be hosting a free webinar on June 23rd where he will be presenti…
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Murugavel Ganesan
June 07, 2010
Semiconductor Industry
Each fall, the UW College of Engineering partners with the UW Alumni Association to present a series of free lectures featuring their distinguished faculty and industry experts. The 2009 lectures are being broadcast on UWTV and are available on-demand.
PCIe and CXL
PCI Express-based MicroTCA platforms are generating more and more interest. This paper describes how small and cost-effective MicroTCA platforms can be built utilizing PCI Express. Furthermore, architecture options for multiprocessor implementations are described, including both standalone systems and clusters.
FPGA
With the dramatic increase in development costs for state-of-the-art process technologies, such as next-generation automotive electronic systems, specialization of traditional microcontrollers no longer makes business sense. This white paper discusses a process to develop an exact microcontroller for a specific application by implementing it into an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA for prototyping and volume production. Verification, software dev…
