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

EDA entrepreneur spins $750 VHDL simulator

Santa Cruz, Calif. — A part-time passion for affordable HDL simulation led Cypress Semiconductor engineer Haneef Mohammed to launch Symphony EDA, which last week rolled out what it calls a ...
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 ...
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

Intermetrics VHDL simulator

The development of VHDL was initiated in 1981 by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to address the hardware life cycle crisis.1983-85 Development of baseline language by Intermetrics, IBM ...
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 ...
TechRepublic

Design and Simulation of 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface Adapter Using VHDL

The 8255A Programmable Peripheral Interface (PPI) implements a general-purpose I/O interface to connect peripheral equipment to a microcomputer system bus. The core’s functional configuration is ...