Aldec Design and Verification Blog Trending Articles FPGA Design Verification in a Nutshell Versal ACAP Simulation Challenges Real-time SDR system with TySOM The Convergence of Emulation and Prototyping Development of real-time SDR systems with Aldec HES Performing cross spectrum video processing on a TySOM-3 board How does the Mars Perseverance rover benefit from FPGAs as the main processing units? All Categories Corporate DO-254 Compliance Embedded Solutions Emulation/Acceleration FPGA Design Functional Verification High Performance Computing Requirements Management SoC and ASIC Prototyping SoC Design and Validation Specialized Applications Development of real-time SDR systems with Aldec HES As telecommunication technologies evolve there is an on-going drive for the development of high-performance systems for radio communications. Part of that evolution involves implementing components in software functions that had traditionally been implemented in hardware.... Tags:Aceleration,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Prototyping,Simulation,Xilinx,Design Like(8) Comments (7) Read more SynthHESer - Aldec’s New Synthesis Tool In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all did many logic optimization exercises back in college.... Tags:Xilinx,Aceleration,Design,Embedded,Emulation,HDL,SystemVerilog,Verilog Like(2) Comments (2) Read more Linting RISC-V designs with ALINT-PRO As the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) continues to gain momentum, the growing number of RISC-V design solutions, and their flexibility, creates a problem when choosing the most reliable and robust solution from a number of contenders.... Tags:ASIC,FPGA,HDL,Verification,Verilog,Design,Digital,IP,Linting,SoC,SystemVerilog Like(2) Comments (0) Read more What is Bird’s Eye View ADAS Application and How to Develop This Using Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC FPGA? Bird’s eye view definition, HW/SW setup and implementation algorithms Will the world be a better place in which to live by having autonomous cars driving around us? Or would it be unsafe and scary? Maybe someone was asking such a question even when the first steam-powered automobile capable... Tags:Aceleration,ARM,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Prototyping,Validation,Verification,Verilog,Design,Digital,SoC,Xilinx,Zynq Like(1) Comments (0) Read more HW/SW Co-Simulation for SoC FPGA designs Aldec’s Co-Simulation Solution using QEMU and Riviera-PRO Heterogeneous System on Chip (SoC) devices like the Xilinx Zynq 7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC combine a high-performance processing system (PS) with state-of-the-art programmable logic (PL).... Tags:Co-simulation,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Verilog,VHDL,Xilinx Like(2) Comments (0) Read more The Power of PCIe in Performance-based FPGA World Understanding High speed serial data transfer In today's world, when the entire computing industry is talking about high-performance and high-speed applications using FPGAs, just what are the factors that can assure such performance and speed?... Tags:Aceleration,ASIC,Co-simulation,Documentation,Embedded,Emulation,FPGA,FPGA Simulation,Hardware,HDL,IP,Prototyping,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Xilinx Like(3) Comments (0) Read more FPGA vs GPU for Machine Learning Applications: Which one is better? Can FPGAs beat GPUs? FPGAs or GPUs, that is the question. Since the popularity of using machine learning algorithms to extract and process the information from raw data, it has been a race between FPGA and GPU vendors to offer... Tags:Aceleration,Embedded,FPGA,Hardware,HDL,Validation,Verilog,VHDL,Xilinx Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Verification Effectiveness with Riviera-PRO: SystemVerilog Randomized Layered Testbench Understanding SystemVerilog Layered Testbench In this blog, I will discuss randomized layered testbenches used in SystemVerilog. We need to understand why we need it,... Tags:Riviera-PRO,ASIC,Assertions,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Design,Documentation,FPGA,HDL,IEEE,OS-VVM,Randomization,Simulation,standards,SystemVerilog,UVM,Verification,Verilog Like(4) Comments (0) Read more Zynq-based Embedded Development Kit for University Programs Cost-effective solution for HW/SW development projects Creativity and innovation, which lead the society to success, rest on the foundational institutions such as schools and universities. They provide fertile soil to seed, grow and flourish enterprises.... Tags:Co-simulation,Embedded,FPGA,HDL,Prototyping,Simulation,SoC,university,Xilinx,Design,Digital Like(1) Comments (0) Read more VHDL-2017: Some of My Favorite Things 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 for balloting. As we are waiting for the standards process to finish up, I thought I would share my favorite new additions. Let me start with an executive summary: ... Tags:HDL,IEEE,Simulation,Verification,VHDL Like(4) Comments (0) Read more