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 ...
EDN

How to raise the RTL abstraction level and design conciseness with SystemVerilog – Part 1

With the advent of advanced HDLs – such as SystemVerilog – that provide new and powerful language constructs, current hardware modeling styles can now be enhanced both in terms of abstraction level ...
Hackaday

Yosys Fronts For Xilinx ISE

We always marvel at how open-source tools can often outstrip their commercial counterparts. Yosys, the open-source tool for Verilog synthesis, is a good example. Although the Xilinx ISE design suite ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Verilog HDL And Its Ancestors And Descendants

This paper describes the history of the Verilog hardware description language (HDL), including its influential predecessors and successors. Since its creation in 1984 and first sale in 1985, Verilog ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A brief history of logic synthesis

The notions of logic synthesis can be traced back to the early 1970s and work conducted at IBM called Logic Synthesis System (LSS). This was a rule-based transformation system. These looked for ...