EDN

Model discrete components in VHDL

The two wires that the telephone company provides to a home or business are amazingly complex. The two-wire interface has been around for over 125 years, and has accumulated numerous design warts to ...
EDN

EDN Access–04.10.97 VHDL and Verilog fundamentals–expressions, operands, and operators

The data objects in VHDL and Verilog form expression operands. Knowing the operand differences between the two HDLs helps you write more efficient chip-design code. Expressions consist of operators ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Improving VHDL

For the past several years, I have had the privilege to chair the IEEE 1076 VHDL working group. In March, we handed off the revisions to the VHDL LRM to our technical editor to finalize the document ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...