VHDL
Comparison of VHDL to Other Hardware Description Languages
VHDL Disadvantages VHDL is verbose, complicated and confusing Many different ways of saying the same thing Constructs t…
Power
Power Analysis and Power-Aware Design - Part 1
Importance of Power and Energy: Laptops, PDA, cell-phones, etc —obvious! For microprocessors in personal computers, eve…
Learning
Delay Modelling and Coding Guidelines
In digital logic design, there are different types of delay modeling. Some of the commonly used delay modeling techniqu…
Wishes
New Year's Wishes
May you get a clean bill of health from your dentist, your cardiologist, your gastro-enterologist, your urologist, your…
Editorial
Future Trends!!
How long do you think DVDs have around? 20 years? 10 years? Actually, they have only been around for about seven years,…
GLS
Gate Level Simulation, Part - II
Gate level simulation is used in the late design phase to increase the level of confidence about a design implementat…
Verilog
Verilog rules that can save your breath !
This article contains some thoughts of mine about how and engineer should write Verilog code for Synthesis, general rul…
Embedded
Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware/Software Introduction
Some web resources, references, labs, and slides. http://esd.cs.ucr.edu/
Synthesis
Synthesis
Logic synthesis is a process by which an abstract form of desired circuit behavior, typically register transfer level (…
Verilog Tutorial
Comprehensive Verilog Tutorials - Introduction
The history of the Verilog HDL goes back to the 1980s, when Gateway Design Automation developed Verilog-XL logic simula…
Verilog Tutorial
Comprehensive Verilog Tutorials - Welcome
This is an Introductory & Comprehensive Verilog Course, which covers.. Modeling Designs for Digital Simulation. Mod…
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Updates
Invitation to be a contributor on this blog!
We are happy to invite you as a contributor to this blog in digital electronics. Of course, you can choose to be anonym…
Updates
Added Features!
After much awaited delay due to developments on the blogger in beta, i m happy to announce that i have successfully con…
GLS
Gate level simulation - Introduction
Gate level simulation (GLS) is a technique for verifying the functionality and timing of a digital circuit after it has…
Low Power
RTL considerations and Functional verification of low power designs
This article is about RTL in a Multi-Voltage environment and it's implication on verification. In the earlier …
Low Power
Todays Low Power Techniques
Lets take a look at the various low power techniques in use today. I would classify them into 2 categories Structu…
Low Power
Design Elements of Low Power Design
Special cells are required for implementing a Multi-Voltage design. Level Shifter Isolation Cell Enable Level Shifter…
Low Power
Infrastructure Needs for Multi-Voltage Designs
Before we start looking at implementing a Multi-Voltage design there are certain questions that need to be answered to …
Low Power
Multi Voltage magic
In the last few weeks i have been quite busy with a lot of research on low power design. There are so many tutorial…
Low Power
Vt Cells and Spacing Requirements
Multi-Vt placement/spacing concerns I was just thinking about most common concerns faced today in addressing leakage p…
Simulation
Event simulation versus cycle simulation
By popular demand: Event simulation allows the design to contain simple timing information - the delay needed for a sig…
Updates
Updates
Last 2 weeks has witnessed a sudden surge in visitors and so i decided to continue my experiments for some more time wi…